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Landsandcrab, did you go up the canyon that you accessed that mine from in in the 1st pic? There's a cabin with running water from a spring up there. That mine had blasting caps in it, took a friend and his 2 boys up there years ago and the kids came out of the mine and said "Dad, look what we found in there..." and pulled handfuls of blasting caps out of their pockets, we both stood there just looking at each other frozen for a few, we ended up using some to split some big wood rounds for the camp fire, drill a hole, insert cap, shoot with rifle, KABOOM.

Did the sheep scare you? NAAAAAAAHHHHH! he he

Hate to point out what makes this wrong even if the guy is eventually proven guilty, we have 3 branches of government, legislative (writes the laws), executive (administers the law) and judicial (provides penalties for breaking the law) and police are in the executive branch and if they're allowed to dish out punishment there goes the separation of power and once it gets accepted they will be beating you for making them get out in the cold to write you a speeding ticket (exaggerated to make a point) you can't pick and choose when to follow the constitution. Maybe we should let the judges beat the cops for horning in on their action. It's not the physical beating in and of itself, it's the fact that the only oath the police take is to uphold and enforce the constitution, and the constitution is solely a document to protect the citizens from over zealous government (kind of ironic). When you get your head around this you start to realize how important the checks and balances (3 branches of government) are to our freedom and since it's only paper the real strength is in the citizens (you and me) understanding how it works, like an engine but let the fuel, ignition or valve timing not follow the designers parameters and the whole thing goes to hell. Don't take this wrong, no finger wagging at anyone, just trying to keep it in perspective. Lee

Not a fan of the BLM or regulations but you would think since spark arrestors are required (aren't they?) and fireworks are "illegal" that the lanterns would be also, even if they were bio-degradable. Lee

If everyone on this site packs out what they bring AND spend just 15 minutes a trip picking up what's close it would add up. maybe peer pressure on those that litter would help like a litter bug page with pics of the litter bugs and/or vehicles, peer pressure is a powerful deterrent, I saw a Discovery segment where there was stuff left out for the taking but a big video monitor showing the people close and nobody would take anything. It's pretty sad when people can bring beer and sodas out but can't take the empty, light weight and smashed, small volume containers out. And it's better to leave aluminum cans in a pile that in the fire, they don't burn, they melt and then those that would pick them up for the recycling value don't as the recyclers won't accept them. Fireworks are ooooh and aaaah until you see what's left in and on the dunes. Is expecting people to just take out what they bring in expecting too much? Lee

I thought the French reef was where you keep the Chardonnay and Escargot..... {;o). So if it's not a typical cruise... did you lose weight? Just sayin....

It's not rocket science, do it yourself. Costco has 100 watt solar panels that I paid $139 shipped, and highly rated panels. They're on the motorhome but the cool deal with a residence is no batteries, use the electric co grid for "storage". You can add panels as you can afford them, and prices keep going down and efficiency keeps going up. All the cables are pre-sized with snap lock waterproof connectors, order online and way better price. Not sure about the states subsidizing if you do it yourself but a little head scratching and you can probably figure a way to work that part of it too. If you work on your quad, LT car etc you can do solar. Lee

In case anyone hasn't been following this there's legislation being voted on tomorrow to bring regulation of the internet under the FCC as being a public utility. Here is a little info with a link to a petition to Congress to stop the regulation. Huge breaking news. We're one day away from the FCC vote on President Obama's secret 332-page plan to turn the Internet into a public utility, and for the first time one of the DEMOCRATS on the commission, Mignon Clyburn, is saying the plan goes too far.1 Stop Obama's Regulatory Attack on the Internet! GO! While it is still highly likely she will vote for the plan, her public concerns make clear how extraordinarily radical Obama's plan is. If the FCC approves it Thursday anyway, the future of the free-market Internet will depend on Congress mustering the will to stand up to the Obama administration and its rubber-stamps at the FCC. Please click here right now to send your letters to Congress urging them to stop the FCC. If you already have written to Congress, please share the contact page with your friends. Public utility regulation will depress private investment by as much as 20 percent in the first five years according to a credible bipartisan analysis.2 Taxpayers will almost certainly be forced to pay the difference via rapidly growing universal service taxes, which are likely to be applied to Internet bills for the first time.3 And then calls to regulate this publicly-funded network in the “public interest” will begin. Michael Copps, a former FCC commissioner who is now a board member at Free Press, a leading supporter of Obama’s plan, said this a few years ago: “Can you tell me that minority and women’s voices on the Internet are getting through to major audiences—really being heard—like the big corporate sites? Should we just take it for granted that the small ‘d’ democratic potential of new information technologies will somehow be magically realized without questions being raised about how they are designed and managed?”4 It’s easy to see how questions like those will lead to answers that involve government controlling content to promote a political agenda. It's chilling. Please click here right now to send your letters to Congress urging them to stop the FCC. If you already have, please share the contact page with your friends. Thanks for all you do, --Phil Sources: 1. Julian Hattem, "Democratic FCC commissioner balks at net neutrality rules," The Hill. February 24, 2015. http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/233626-fcc-dem-wants-last-minute-changes-to-net-neutrality-rules 2. Kevin A. Hassett and Robert J. Shapiro, "The Impact of Title II Regulation of Internet Providers On Their Capital Investments," November 2014. http://www.sonecon.com/docs/studies/Impact_of_Title_II_Reg_on_Investment-Hassett-Shapiro-Nov-14-2014.pdf 3. Harold Furchtgott-Roth, "FCC Plans Stealth Internet Tax Increase," Forbes, October 12, 2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/haroldfurchtgottroth/2014/10/12/fcc-plans-stealth-internet-tax-increase/ 4. Michael Copps, "Remarks to the Joint Center for Political and Ecnomic Studies, March 3, 2010. https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-296655A1.pdf

Pete, if you ride long enough your mind won't remember why your body hurts so much.......

The sand repairs itself pretty quick, where I took the Monday sunset pic I also took this one and most of the rough sand was already smoothed out. The 2nd pic is from the day before and shows where I was the next day when I took the Sunset and flats pics and is really tore up

HDR.... that's the term, like STML, short term memory loss.....what were we talking about? Yeah, front side was rough, wind picked up Sat night late and blew the dry sand away, these are from 10:30 am Sunday And this is Monday sunset (synthesized HDR)

Jody, couldn't resist your moon pic And how did you get this pic, almost surreal look, don't know the term for the look, interesting.

And this is Pres day 2008, maybe the drags are out of the frame on the right, don't remember if they had the races or not.

Check out the camp at red arrow, wonder if anyone got stuck leaving.....

There's another example of something to add to the "stay alive" thread, when dunning either follow the ridge at the top so you can be seen from either side or stay away a good distance from the ridge so you are not in the path/landing zone of someone that doesn't have a clue anyone is there. Not only is it safer to follow the ridge so you are seen, by following the ridge you won't launch off one when there's no tracks and hard to see. And if you have one of the flexible flag poles that are nearly horizontal when you are dunning ..... get a real flag pole so the flag crests the ridge before your helmet does. And buggy drivers, have your kill switch easily accessible cause you know your throttle will stick at the worst time thanks to Murphy. I saw a buggy roll and nobody got hurt but the guy was killed trying to tow the buggy out of a bowl and had he placed the kill switch left of the steering wheel on the dash or close to the gear shifter he would have lived. OK, rant finished. Lee

from Nov 13, 2014

Water wetter isn't a magic potion but it does help in the heat exchange and that's all it does, if your cooling is marginal (by 20* F) it can get the temps in the comfort zone. If you still have overheating issues then you do like Svengooloie says and add cooling capacity OR reduce the heat load which you shouldn't have with the size radiators in most LT cars unless you're pushing too much compression or advanced timing for the fuels octane rating you are using (really the AKI index) or even a gearing issue and running to low an RPM.

That's why I would do the same as you and run a little coolant just to get the freeze point down to around 10*F. Water wetter is alkaline and breaks the surface tension on metal, no boiling air bubbles. Most brands have water pump lubricant also. As a side note I haven't had a water pump seal failure since I started squirting syn GL5 oil up the weep holes on everything. Dang, Murphys law says now I will.....

antifreeze isn't a good coolant, it just raises the boiling point and lowers the freeze point. Distilled alone will cool better that distilled and coolant but without water wetter or coolant your water pump seals will fail sooner. All the race trucks from LOORRS short course use distilled and their favorite water tension breaker (Redline etc)

You need a new avatar, here's a temporary one till you do a real one, if you want of course......

Pete, nobody answered you directly, I think he meant if the rumor circulated it was the gas can... the Razor owners that would otherwise be made aware might not investigate further on their own Razor and dismiss it as a fuel can issue. That was my guess anyways. Lee

If the gas can had leaked there would have been a trail of fuel on the can, whatever it is sitting on and on down so the fire would have followed it quickly. I've seen lots of vehicle fire at the Lucas Oil short course races, some trans fluid and some fuel and it happens when they roll or when they are rolled back upright, the liquid hits the exhaust, vaporizes and ignites. No spark needed when the exhaust is above 530-555 deg F.

Prior to the moon, looks like a glider plane, Ghost Glider.

This pic was from Sat night about 11:30, started out as thin contrails and spread out till the moon came up, exactly how it looked except for the orange circle halo