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Trip Report Oct 20-23, 2022


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We had a great first trip of the season last weekend. Thursday and Friday were nice and warm with some smooth, fast, flowy dunes. They weren't as sketchy as I expected them to be but they were pretty sharp and steep. 

 

The new entrance road was just being finished up as I rolled in. It was beautiful! lol

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Our buddy Gary built an ATC beer trailer out of an old 1939 wagon! Pretty cool. 

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Hello Dumont. It's been way too long. 9 months for me this year! Way too long.

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A couple vendors were already there for Halloween.

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Thursday morning I rebooted the router so the Dumont wifi would be refreshed. lol

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Thursday afternoon the 3 of us went for a ride to check out the dunes and the new cancer memorial ting near south pole. 

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The rest of the crew arrived and the sun went down. Weather was perfect!

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Friday morning we joined groups with the pooper 10 crew and had a nice big line of buggies. 

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Friday afternoon it was toasty. I cleaned up my solar panels to maximize my charging. I know. My roof is filthy. lol

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We hung out in the shade since it was too bright to dune.

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On our earlier run to the north pole we noticed the flag on the teeter totter desperately needed replacing so we handled it. 

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When the only shade out there is from the pole, we use it. lol

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Then we stopped off at Sunset Hill.

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Saturday was a complete blowout as expected. The winds were fierce all day but we still squeezed in a quick ride when it calmed down for a minute. then it blew hard and it was a painful ride. Still fun though!

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Then Saturday night Alayna and Jerry messaged me needing help after they buried their new coach. :( We assembled the crew and got em out after a while. 

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Playing tug-o-war with a Ford or what? lol

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Sunday we woke up to much colder weather and still some wind so we packed it up. I was out of fuel by them anyways. We duned alot! Awesome trip. 

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The completed road leaving Dumont was amazing. Nice and smooth! I love it and my trailer will too.

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I've got a ton of GoPro footage and other video I'll be working on so stay tuned for that. 

 

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11 hours ago, G4NON said:

The road is 100% complete now? Or are there a few small things left? Thanks for the update!

 

They still have to pave the pay station area and up to the top by the ranger station, but the road is paved and 2 lanes all the way from the highway to just past the water crossing. They may have some shoulder work they'll be doing but it looks done to me! It's awesome. 

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2 hours ago, dunefreak said:

 

They still have to pave the pay station area and up to the top by the ranger station, but the road is paved and 2 lanes all the way from the highway to just past the water crossing. They may have some shoulder work they'll be doing but it looks done to me! It's awesome. 

Awesome, thank you!

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