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March 31 2012 weekend report


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Got there early evening 3:30ish on Friday.

Absolutely gorgeous weather.. teeny bit warm, to warm for a fire Friday evening.

Got busy tearing up the dunes right after set up, got in two good runs before dark.

Back to camp for dinner, drinks and visiting.

Still a bit ansty for riding, another in our camp wanted to hit up comp, so off we went. Hit the hill a couple of times, visited with some people who were out there, then it was back to camp for more drinks and visiting.

Up with the sun to the start of another gorgeous day, little bit of breeze kept it from being super hot.

Several great runs in.

Started mocking the weather and its 88 MHP winds around 1:30 or so... guess the wind gods didn't like being mocked.. cause probably 5:00ish (you know how dune time goes) the winds decided to pick up like crazy.. shook the hauler so bad during dinner, the left over coffee looked like the ocean, that Mike decided to move the hauler to go with the wind.

Obviously it was going to be an indoor evening, so drinks and conversations in NE14SAND's motorhome. Still had a great evening only thing missing was the campfire.

Woke up the next day to a beautiful morning, little breezy.. perfectly groomed dunes.

Breakfast and a ride.. generator had been having some issues, so Mike decided to pack it in early to start work on it.

All in all it was a great relaxing weekend, only thing the wind took away from that was the possibility of an evening campfire.

Some pics from the weekend.

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:nuts: Crazy diehards out in the wind! :headbang1: Haha.. I thought about joining them!

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Sit back and grab a beer because this will be my last trip report for a while. :blah:

It's never easy closing the season out and knowing it is the last trip, but when they're like this I go home with a big grin on my face. I burned through about 25 gallons of race fuel in the buggy and about 7 gallons in the Raptor this weekend. I duned ALOT.

I got in Thursday night with Lou B. His buddy, Pat pulled in shortly after me. He got his motorhome stuck in that soft patch at the end of the first finger, but he's no dummy and was smart enough to let out of the gas to prevent from burying it. I unhooked my truck and yanked him right out. We got to bed at a decent hour and headed out to the dunes bright and early Friday morning.

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Those dunes were nice! We ran all the way from the south end to the north pole zig zagging everywhere.

North pole...

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Pat was passenger in my car. He was loving it until we got out to the n. pole. He mentioned his stomach wasn't cooperating much with that ride. lol On the way back I pulled over so he could feed the chipmunks. Buh bye breakfast! :lol: Sorry Pat, I had to take a pic.

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Lou b, Pat and his family played a game of what am I or whatever it's called. lol That was entertaining.

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Then Lou and I played around on the ATC's a bit.

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I even went duning a little bit on mine.

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Later that morning Lou & I met up with NE14SAND and his buddy Dave in their buggies and went for a ride. While sitting in the dunes on a break, bp-guy had just pulled in and called me to see where we were. He jammed right out to where we were sitting near Talladega in no time flat. He was anxious to dune. So we continued on and Aaron & Dave went back because Dave's radiator mount busted.

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Pat took his KTM 525 out and explored the area some. We told him about Sperry Wash and some of the trails. He was off!

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We did a couple more runs that day and even managed to squeeze in 2 cocktail runs: one with bp-guy and Lou, then a little later one with just bp-guy and I. We got a real good one in and then watched the sun go down at the end over a cold one near the superbowl.

Go pro shot at the end of the ride...

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Good times. Cheers.

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A couple sunset pics with the 50D...

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Then we headed back to camp for some dinner. Lou grilled up some killer ribs for "orderves" while we grilled some burgers. A couple more buddies showed up, greedy bastard Mike, crazymexeddie and Robert and Jeff in their RZR XP's. Greedy bastard found the exact same soft spot as Pat and it was deva vu. I went over and pulled him right out though.

We enjoyed a chill campfire and then a little later that evening we all headed over to comp hill. We played around a bit on the hill and enjoyed how empty it was. We cracked a couple "boys trip" jokes and met one of the bros from that camp and then decided it was time for a south pole run. We headed out there, then took the back side of the mountain around towards the camp area. Well, as most of you know how easy it is even for a Dumont veteran to get lost at Dumont sometimes, it happened. I pulled over and said, wtf I'm turned around. bp-guy pointed to camp looking at his gps, and we were off again. I was cruising through sand and brush that I never saw before. :think: Wait, what's that ahead? AH CRAP! The south pole! :lol: Rob was low on fuel before and now he was REALLY low on fuel. LOL We headed back to camp via the comp corridor and had some good laughes.

Saturday was another gorgeous morning to dune. We all headed out and did a group ride with the buggies and RZR's.

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Rob & Jeff

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We filmed and did some jumps at Taladega.

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Throughout the day I did a few buggy rides and one quad ride. I was saving my riding time for when Rap Rider showed up Sunday. That and I wanted to get as much buggy time in as possible with Lou before he headed out. We managed to get a good run in as the sun got low. It was just in time too because the winds were coming. Lou B decided to pack it up and head out because he normally leaves Sunday early anyways. About 5pm it blew like hell all the way until about midnight.

WTF am I doing out here???

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In came the wind!

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We watched a few movies, had some drinks, and just hung out in my hauler for hours and hours. A campfire was way out of the question. :laughing: I went out to take my DDR flag down and thought I was going to get blow away. It was insane. Probably some of the worst winds I have seen out there. The wind was hitting the driver side of my hauler. The right side jacks were super tight and pushed down and the left side jacks were about an inch of the ground! I gave them all a good crank and hoped the wind wasn't getting any worse other wise I would be toyhauler shopping soon! haha

Sunday AM: There were dunes in our camp. Everywhere where something was on the ground or parked there were dunes that formed.

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It was just greedy bastard, bp-guy and I.

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We burned up Saturday night's unused firewood.

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The sand was nice!

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greedy bastard

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We headed out for one last buggy run. The dunes were virgin....everywhere. No tracks whatsoever where we duned. We were out early enough that we layed the first set down except for one line that we didn't take. Looks like someone else had the same idea. We played around over at comp for a while. Tim had an issue with his car misfiring after landing kinda hard and I was nearly out of fuel so we headed back.

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Tim packed it up and as soon as he pulled out of camp Rap Rider (Adam) showed up. I was happy he made it out so we could get some rides in.

We went on a total of 3 good, long rides that day and still had plenty of time in between to b.s. at camp and have some beverages over some tunes. It was a great day and super relaxing. Michael and Adam are great riders and I feel we were all 3 on the same "plane" that day. We all wanted to do the same thing. Ride, hit some jumps, ride some more, and even squeeze a ride in when the winds were starting to get crazy at sundown. :laughing: That ride was badass! You would think the wind would have made it hard to see, but because the sun was so low it was really easy with all the shadows. We rode through a bunch of swirling sand and winds and even played in the technical steep stuff behind comp during the wind storm. :dayum::laughing: I compared it to those surfers who go out in nasty storms to catch that epic wave. :nuts:

Pics from Sunday's rides...

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dust devil!

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Anyways, I'll wrap it up now. :blah: :blah:

We stopped on the hill, watched one final sunset go down and headed home. I didn't pull out of there until about 8/8:30 pm. Got home and unloaded at like 11pm. Phew, I was beat!

Killer weekend and perfect way for me to close the 11/12 season out.

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Next trip... definitely some early AM quads trips this summer.

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Awesome trip report and pics Mr. Pedro.

Really wish I could have made it out but we're shooting for this weekend. Won't be anything like yours though. Looking forward to the next one with you young guys!

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I wasn't even there 48 hours but it was totally worth it!!! Got in just over 100 miles on the car. Went through about 20 gallons of gas. Car went back in the trailer under its own power so I can't complain at all.

Still working on the go-pro videos and hopefully will have it up soon. Gonna get a Vimeo account so I can add the music I want. I have about 90 minutes of video to go through and got some good dune rides on it.

Thanks Pete for the grub and the use of the bed. You make a good host. That food was great!!

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Thanks fellas.

Tim you're welcome anytime. Glad you made the drive out!

The only thing that would have made this trip any better was if more of the group could have made it out and enjoyed those great dune runs with is all.

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After spending the last day and a half cleaning up after toys that are sitting around without use ( I've cleaned 5 carbs so far...), I'm vowing to make it out as much as possible next season. These pictures and stories are motivating me to slow down on work a little and enjoy myself. Only live once, right?

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