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March 3-5, 2017 Trip Report


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Only a few of us planned on heading out last weekend, but at the last minute we got quite a good group together and we ended up having a really fun dune trip despite a little bit of wind. Saturday was only breezy at times and the temperature was perfect. The dunes have finally dried out but with any "dune repair", the W has created quite a few sketchy areas. There are many razorbacks, a few drop offs, and some witch eyes that usually aren't there well into dune season. The dunes were pretty difficult to read at times with the wind and overcast sky, but we managed to get some decent-paced rides in. 

 

I was super stoked to take out my new KTM with a paddle tire this trip. It's been a LONG time since I've duned on two wheels and it took me a little bit to get into the groove again, but I picked it back up and had blast on my new bike. It brought back many good memories of riding out there. I only dumped it once and that's because my front tire got swallowed up in a super soft patch. Don't worry, the GoPro got it all. haha

 

Anyways, here's some pics...

 

Friday night around the fire

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Saturday morning run

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Like I said, the dunes were NICE

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@jetjock15, @ItsWeeks and a couple others showed up for a day trip.

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I took my bike out for a quick little photo shoot. You don't see too many street legal dune bikes. :headbang1:

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Another buggy run

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This Ford was duning pretty good!

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We headed out to the South Pole to check out the new pole. Nice work guys!

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Just as we pulled up I noticed @Jmanx spotted us and followed us over to hang out. :beercheers:

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As I was suiting up for another bike ride, Mike & Jodi were going for a run and asked me if I wanted to join them. At first I was like nah, I wanted to go for a solo ride, then I decided to chase them down and join in.

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The desert is almost ready to start blooming.

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@rogers807 made for a great shot out at Taladega looking south

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I stopped at the top of comp and did a FB Live video. The wind was kicking up!

 

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We went for a quickie run (more or less just played around) and stopped to enjoy the sunset. It was one of the best ones of the season.

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Saturday night we watched Supercross on the big screen and loved the 3-4 minute fireworks display from Johnnie's camp next door.

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Saturday night got a little breezy, but it still wasn't too bad. We all made a group decision to be up and duning around 7:30/8 AM. We turned in and woke up to some awesome dunes.

 

Sunday morning was perfect. You would never think a huge wind storm was coming.

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Chad, Steve, Ben and I duned out to the North Pole.

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We played around on the finger dune for a little bit.

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And then this happened. lol The wind came in quick and blew hard. We all packed it up and got the hell out of there.

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glad I got to hook up with you Pete, thanks for the stickers and the supercross. and the fireworks show Saturday night was intense.

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Hey Pete, that 1st "oops" pic, just to the left of your visor at the very bottom, is that your front fender? Did you get to step off forward?. I stepped out of the motorhome Sat eve and saw that sunset and grabbed the camera, only took 1 pic the whole weekend. Check out the lenny, looks like a UFO. When I left and was about a mile before the Baker airstrip I saw 3 wild burros, 1st ones I've seen in 44 years of going to Dumont.

 

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6 hours ago, RUn2it said:

Hey Pete, that 1st "oops" pic, just to the left of your visor at the very bottom, is that your front fender? Did you get to step off forward?

 

Yes, it's my fender. No I didn't step off. See second pic. lol Watch the video that I posted a couple posts back and you'll see the whole thing. It happens at 1:20 minutes in. 

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5 hours ago, dunefreak said:

@Jmanx lets hook up for cleanup weekend. 

Ill probably wait until I get my car back...thinking the first part of April. I have a couple weeks off during that time. I'll let u know Pete. 

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3 hours ago, RUn2it said:

I tried to find the video link yesterday, quirky Windows 10 decided to play hide and seek with it still.  

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure what to tell ya. It's just YouTube. Try this link. Maybe the embedded video doesn't want to show up on your computer. 

https://youtu.be/n4-EE-VLEd8

 

7 minutes ago, Jmanx said:

Ill probably wait until I get my car back...thinking the first part of April. I have a couple weeks off during that time. I'll let u know Pete. 

 

Ok, I think cleanup is my last trip of the season, but ya never know. Keep me posted. :beercheers:

 

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GREAT quick weekend! 

Thank you Pete for the invite to camp, it was nice having a smaller camp group. And I got to meet some awesome new peeps!

That firework show was better then most I have seen on the 4th of July, wish I could post my "live" Facebook video. Crazy! The Supercross on Saturday was awesome as well. Thank you for also leading a great ride Saturday afternoon, I was super worried about keeping up! Love that crazy ride of mine!

 

Mike has been working with me on how to wheelie the Maverick and I was finally able to get a couple good ones! I wish he had got the really good one!

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THAT was super fun and BADASS!!! 

 

We also went to one of Mike's friends weddings on Saturday afternoon, evening. What a beautiful ceremony with an amazing background!

 

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So much fun, I only took a couple of shots.

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Looking forward to Clean Up weekend!

 

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Ok I am apparently a little special when it comes to embedding video's :laughing: :rolleyes: :stick_smack: :think:

Let's try this.... Full on 4th of July style fireworks show and some Supercross...

 

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One more dual sport in the dunes sounds great! Man I was buzzing around on the 5th up til just before sunset...then bugged out (our group was camped since the 3rd) and wish I would have known ya were there....doh! One day I'll get to meet you and personally say Awesome job with this site!!! You're an amazing admin Pete! BTW nice capture on the wipeout, you were still holding onto the bars so it don't even count as a "crash" LOL

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On 3/13/2017 at 2:00 PM, Landsandcrab said:

One more dual sport in the dunes sounds great! Man I was buzzing around on the 5th up til just before sunset...then bugged out (our group was camped since the 3rd) and wish I would have known ya were there....doh! One day I'll get to meet you and personally say Awesome job with this site!!! You're an amazing admin Pete! BTW nice capture on the wipeout, you were still holding onto the bars so it don't even count as a "crash" LOL

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Ah damn it's too bad we missed each other. I saw you posted you were going out, but I thought it was during the week.

 

Thanks a bunch. I really appreciate that. It's good to hear from time to time. Keeps me motivated to keep things going around here. There's not much participation these days with other social media outlets, but we are still alive! haha I hope to link up one of these days out there. :thumb:

 

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