dunefreak

Here's my situation. Some of you guys might remember a while back when I was camera shopping. I bought the Canon SD1100 and loved it, until it broke and I used the replacement insurance about 3 times. That got old quick. What's the point of a camera that takes badass pics but doesn't hold up right? I then traded up that camera in on an Olympus Stylus 1030 SW. Basically it is a indestructible camera. Shock proof, dust/ sand proof, water proof, drunk proof etc. I love it except for the lense is crap for any kind of quality zoom shots. It's perfect for dune trips, but when I really want to get some good shots, I want a better camera. So now I have been checking out the Canon 50D. Point and shoot compact cameras aren't gonna cut it anymore so that is why I am looking at a DSLR camera like this. The reviews seem like it is what I am looking for. It looks like Costco has it the cheapest and it seems to come with a good all-around lense. I'm hoping someone on here (80grit, SP2, RUn2it, Mike330R, etc ) might have 1st hand info or some good camera knowledge to give my some feedback before I take the plunge one of these days here soon. I understand I cannot bring this out on every dune ride and beat this thing up like my camera I have now, but I'd like to have a bitchen camera for when I'd get more into taking pics. I have been taking more and more of an interest in photography and I think this camera will do it for me. Any feedback is appreciated.

Sandpirates2 just sent this to me to post up. Bastid

oh.....right

Looks like he was just on not too long ago. Last Active 18th January 2008 - 11:54 AM Not to ask a dumbazz question, but have you pm'd or emailed him yet, Gary?

"Hey BAKO BITCHEZZ...I am coming your way"

I would find it HARD to believe that most football fans would be offended by porn.

gee thanks cheesedog. You don't think I remember that? I was there with ya ma facka! Mike stopped by our camp on Saturday and we chatted for a bit. He pointed to the general direction where he was but we still couldn't find him.

Anyone hear about this? OGP told me about this after he heard it on the radio in CA. I guess in AZ during the superbowl (on live TV) someone "accidentally" flipped a switch and it went to a 30 second porn clip of some dude swinging his dangler around in a porno. :?: :ah:

Well then where the hell were you parked??? All three of us went out lookin for ya. Even Sunday morning we didn't see a white/ blue WW, Ford truck and any yellow Cam Ams??? Do/did you have a bunch other rigs in your group or is it just you? btw, we couldn't come over Sunday anyways. We ran out of working bikes. I guess Nick could have rode the 70 over there.

Glad you guys are ok! Doesn't look like the car got TOO messed up either. Be careful out there.

This guy was doin 60 on the freeway. He must have thought he was flyin under the radar from one superbowl party to the next. Would have been funny to see him get pulled over! "Sir how many have you had to drink today excluding the one on your bumper?" Would that constitute as an open container? :black:

Hell yeah the nightvision kicks a$$! Runs great. I zipped it up and down my street last night. :black: I love it. poor Cole :clown:

A big thanks to OGP for picking this up for me in Cali and to Woody & Nacho for transporting it. You guys are the chit! THANK YOU! I now have a 70cc trx AND a 70cc ATC. Now there is officially no more room for anything else in my garage. Wtf is wrong with me? I went and rescued the atc that was being held hostage last night at Cole's house. He'll tell you his plan he had for it. :black: Fuggin Cole.

Yep that was him. I knew you'd remember that. Vendors that were there: Sandcrazd, Loose Screws Offroad Supply, California Casuals, Dune Mart, and a couple other t-shirt places and a food place. Thats about it. As for the car, I think you are thinking of the beige Wicked Sand Car that has a very similar body on it. You sure about that? If that's the case, then I wonder why the heck this thing goes through so many chains. It almost busted the case again.

We already have a thread for talk about the 70 get together. Post up over there. Besides, I am not pre-organizing this. It is what we make of it once we get out there. The other thread was already there to brainstorm ideas for when we get out there. I already gave my input... http://www.dumontduneriders.com/invision/i...st&p=166082

Close enough. Let's see em all. I guess I should have labeled the thread minis or mc powered rails.

That's the coolest damn 2 wheeler I have ever seen!

SWEET! Congrats, Mike!

Yeah sucks you couldn't make it out to this one, Vic. We would have liked to have ya there. Oh well, there's always next time. North pole: no idea what that was about but those dudes were dedicated! :black: We were cruising out there around sun-down on Saturday and I spotted that thing about 5 dunes back! I thought it was someone's big azz flag or whip or something. It's over 20 feet tall and looks like it was a telephone pole at one time. I agree, some jerks will probably pull it down in no time but I hope not. Ranger station: the BLM recently received a grant for maintenance that was used to fund that project. And yes, it is nice to see things like this after hearing all that stuff about possible closures etc. The BLM doesn't want the place shut down and you know they wouldn't be dumping money into something they know is gonna go bye bye. We all know that.

Sat late morning run chillen at the n pole stopped at comp to watch this badass Racer tear it up ISBB hitten comp on the 500 bitchen dunes comp hill area...very empty :black: ISBB an attempt at a panorama shot of camp area camp area IT GREW! the giant north pole construction crew that sweet car from earlier...out at the north pole ahhh...time for some relaxation and a we had um...really flamable firewood flight for life this morning quad rider showing the CHP where help was needed Baker medic Gary's dual sport Maybe we can use this to tow it back! What do ya think? trx70 photoshoot Gary's buddy's HAYABUSA Rhino :ah: This thing is nuts! ISBB soaking up the last few moments of the epic day before leaving. some very cool duners picking up some trash that some effers left behind props to these guys! Ranger station is looking nice! Later Dumont

gettin there...CHILL!

Next trip for sure man you mean north pole right? :black:

We just got back this afternoon. It was a killer weekend out there. PERFECT weather, SMOOTH dunes and great lines. ISBB & I met up w/ Chris1223 and Chadwick99 at the gas station Sat AM. We rolled into D about 10am and pulled up w/ Vegas Style. It started out as a day trip for us, but we decided to take the hauler and make a weekend out of it instead. I'm really glad we did too. It was a very cheap, simple, chill weekend out there. We got many rides in on Saturday. It was Chadwick's first time out to Dumont and he loved it. Pretty cool to see someone experience Dumont for the first time. Makes me remember my first trip. Good times Chad and nice meeting you. We'll help you out again next trip on learning those razors and transitions. Saturday's rides were great. The sand was perfect. On our last ride that day ISBB's waterpump seal started leakin when we got out to the north pole. He let it cool down and then filled it back up w/ some water and limped it back along the back stretch. On the way back we noticed a buggy broken down. The guy seemed like he was just waitin for help so we kept on. Then....about a mile later we saw some dude walking with a walkie takie, I stopped and asked him if he needed a ride. He was like "hell yeah dude thanks!" Get this....ends up we knew each other! I met him (Gary) exactly a year ago this weekend. He was the guy who had this interesting lil China buggy thing out at the north pole LAST SUPERBOWL weekend! Small world...crazy huh? So we cruised back to our camp and we grabbed my other Raptor to go to his camp for supplies. (Little Dumont) His alternator was the issue on the buggy so we grabbed a new battery, jump box etc and put it in his buddy's busa Rhino. We cruised back to big Dumont to our camp and they proceeded from there and had it handled. Nice group of peeps and we plan on meeting up Prez weekend for some buggy runs. He has a bitchen dual sport car. Sat night was very nice and chill. We had a great fire going that was super relaxing. I even got some time on the 70 and made a fun lil circle track around the fire. We met Brian (sandfreak33) and his buddies from Barstow and hung out for a bit. We also saw and chatted with Sandpirates early in the day but couldn't find where the heck he was camped later that night when we cruised over. Sunday (today) we slept in which was much needed for me as I've been doin a ton of chit latley. We missed out on the AM ride with Brian and group, but we'll hook up next time guys. Great meeting you. :black: ISBB, Vegas Style and I got a nice long ride in late morning. Then towards the end of the ride my other Raptor (that Nick was riding) busted a chain. Luckily we weren't too far from camp. I was able to pull him back. So at this point since we were out of running bikes we finished up the beer oin the cooler then split this afternoon around 1- 1:30. It was 73 degrees leaving today...absolutley gorgeous. Yesterday was almost a tad warm...over 80 degrees! Killer trip! Glad we did this one. Nice meeting all the new faces this weekend and great hanging out with the homies. :B I took some pics. Will post some up later.

Sorry to hear that, Terry. I still think you should go prez weekend. I think there's gonna be another pretty good group of cars going again. :stir: Well, Nick and I decided to bring the hauler so our day trip plan has not turned into staying through Sunday! More ride time. :ogp: Will take some pics for those that can't make it. We're meeting a couple peeps at the Shell station on Rainbow & Blue Diamond at 8:30 am tomorrow if anyone else wants to caravan out.

Who woulda thunk it? Bakersfield put a pretty good whoop on the Wranglers tonight. Man these guys had their chit together. Since I am dumping my camera card right now, I figure I'll share some pics that I took tonight. Bako is in orange, Wranglers are black/ white since it was "prison night". :ogp: The puck toss THE BAKO BITCHEZZZZ THE FINAL SCORE After messin w/ the camera and figuring some chit out, I got some pretty cool panoramic shots. They are off a little bit, but heh whateva! lol I thought some of these came out pretty good considering the super crappy zoom & lense my camera has and the low lighting.