Dune Trip 31 Dec~2 Jan

[98Z5V]

Out for the weekend, men!   Hitting the sand again.  I'll report back later, with pics and vids.  

 

Have a safe New Year's Eve, everyone.  Don't do anything I wouldn't do...   

[Armed Eye Doc]

1 minute ago, 98Z5V said:

Don't do anything I wouldn't do...   

Would you do this?

 

Edited December 31, 2021 by Armed Eye Doc

[Armed Eye Doc]

Enjoy your weekend.

[98Z5V]

9 minutes ago, Armed Eye Doc said:

Would you do this?

 

Fuk no.  I'd die.  I've jumped some fun shiit, but I'm not trying a triple-backflip.  I'm not trying a single backflip unless the foam pit is 'UGE!  

Edited December 31, 2021 by 98Z5V

[shooterrex]

Have a great time.

[Sharpshooter]

Damn, Tom! When I saw "Dune trip" I thought you had booked passage to Dune (as in Arrakis, the desert planet) and you had room for your brothers! I was looking forward to the trip! Okay, seriously, have a great time and a greater New Year. Same to all you reprobates!

[DNP]

Oh sure….out to the dunes and no invite. It’s ok, we would have said no. I’ve gotta wash my hair or something. 

[unforgiven]

Have fun brother 👍

[Cunuckgaucho]

Enjoy brother, just know you're missing the snow that's going to change to freezing rain Saterday night here.

[unforgiven]

1 minute ago, Cunuckgaucho said:

Enjoy brother, just know you're missing the snow that's going to change to freezing rain Saterday night here.

Waiting for snow tomorrow fired up the snowblower toped it off. Maybe 8/10 in.

[Cunuckgaucho]

25 minutes ago, unforgiven said:

Waiting for snow tomorrow fired up the snowblower toped it off. Maybe 8/10 in.

I know @98Z5V is missing all that to play in the dunes. I sure you feel as bad for him as I do...

[unforgiven]

11 minutes ago, Cunuckgaucho said:

I know @98Z5V is missing all that to play in the dunes. I sure you feel as bad for him as I do...

Hahaha

[98Z5V]

Came back, a day late.  I'm alive, no chance of dying out there.  Tried to leave on Sunday morning from Wash 6, but that was a complete shiitshow, as soon as the sun came up.  5 miles of traffic, bumper to bumper, stop-and-go, from sunrise until about 7:45pm.  I stayed another day, just to avoid that.  I left at 9am Monday morning, and was ablt to drive right out. 

Heavy winds Friday night through Saturday morning, which made alot of people pack up early and leave...   But, that's the best sand, once that wind dies.  Everything around noon on Saturday was brand-new sand, smooth all over the place, no tracks, no ruts.  Lot's of people were waiting for that wind to die, and make "new dunes" out there - and it was great riding.

@AZMan - can't thank you enough, brother.  

I'll work on pics and vids. 

[DNP]

Get on with the dune porn. I’m missing that stuff. I’m hoping by next season we can go out. I don’t think I’ll make it at all this season. 

[98Z5V]

8 minutes ago, DNP said:

Get on with the dune porn. I’m missing that stuff. I’m hoping by next season we can go out. I don’t think I’ll make it at all this season. 

I need to get one more trip out there this year, before it gets hot.  I've only been out twice this season - but it makes me realize that missing about 3 or 4 years really sucked.  And I shouldn't have missed all those years.

I remember a time when we were hitting the sand about 8 to 12 times a season, brother.  Dan's YXZ rocked out there... 

[DNP]

That’s a nice rig. I need one that seats 5 though. And to win the lotto so I can afford one. 

[98Z5V]

Got out there Friday, mid-day.  Made a day run for a minute, got to pedal the thing and run it a little, and went out for a night run later, hit Olds after dark.  Got in there, duned over and not sand highway, went to the top...   and all the reds and blues came out.  Life Flight.

We found out later that a dirtbike went head-on into a RZR.  Fucked the dirt biker up pretty bad. 

Not even 3 minutes after we were at the top of the hill, looking down, the reds and blues started making a circle.

Took about 20 minutes for the helicopter to show up, and they lit the LZ with a green strobe.  Pilot landed directly onto that green strobe  - which means it's a badass pilot.  He was on the ground for 15 or 20 minutes before he lifted off, which isn't a good sign.  I told the guys up there,  "If he shuts those engines down, down there, that means there's nothing to get to a hospital - the dude is dead."  He never turned it off - but he was on the ground for a long time.  They were still trying to prep that guy for flight.  That helo lifted off, and hauled ass, probably for Yuma General. 

That was a sad start to the weekend.  But, when you're out there enough, you know that shiit happens.  5 or 6 times every single major-holiday weekend. 

[98Z5V]

A bunch of RZRs and one lonely 2017 Yamaha YXZ1000R SS SE...   1,000cc 4-stroke triple-cylinder, manual transmission (no CVT belt), and a paddle-shifter none the less. It's a BAD rig.  

[98Z5V]

After I got back, Dan told me it had the HEAVY flywheel in it, because he's been doing mostly trail riding.  The heavy flywheel keeps it from stalling, when you're lugging the engine down...   But the paddle-shifter never stalls, because there's another computer controlling the clutch and shifter...

That nasty little fucker would have revved SO MUCH faster it the heavy flywheel wasn't in there...  

Wait for the first of 5 ride videos, that I'm processing right now, and you'll get it...  This engine isn't happy below 4k RPMs.  It goes CRAZY starting at 7k RPMs.  The rev limit is 11k RPMs...   It's a RIPPER!  

[98Z5V]

First GoPro vid from the dash...

 

[Magwa]

That looks like a ton of fun..... never been anywhere like that so much sand....

[DNP]

5 minutes ago, Magwa said:

That looks like a ton of fun..... never been anywhere like that so much sand....

Well, when you come down for the fall shoot…stay an extra week or two and we’ll make it happen. 

Edited January 5, 2022 by DNP

[98Z5V]

Update on the dirtbike guy that got hit by the RZR...   Heard this morning...

It'll be a long road for him, but he'll eventually be okay.  There was a Nurse out there right then, that responded immediately to the incident, and she cared for him until the helicopter showed up.  They're trying to find out who she is, because she's the reason he's still alive, and will make it.  News up all over the dune boards on it. 

That explains why that bird was on the ground for so long - she was keeping him going, and they had to get in there and take over for her, then begin all the packaging and prep for movement.  That shiit takes time.  Doesn't matter if it's in the sand, or on a ski slope.  I've only packed one guy out of the sand, in my life, to help a buddy that broke his leg - shiit, that was @DNP and me that got him out.  I've packed a fuk-ton of broken people off ski slopes.  Sonny Bono fuckers going places they shouldn't be in.

[Cunuckgaucho]

14 hours ago, Magwa said:

That looks like a ton of fun..... never been anywhere like that so much sand....

Yeah even the beaches up here don't have that much sand. Lots of them are more pebble/rock than sand.

3 hours ago, 98Z5V said:

Update on the dirtbike guy that got hit by the RZR...   Heard this morning...

It'll be a long road for him, but he'll eventually be okay.  There was a Nurse out there right then, that responded immediately to the incident, and she cared for him until the helicopter showed up.  They're trying to find out who she is, because she's the reason he's still alive, and will make it.  News up all over the dune boards on it. 

That explains why that bird was on the ground for so long - she was keeping him going, and they had to get in there and take over for her, then begin all the packaging and prep for movement.  That shiit takes time.  Doesn't matter if it's in the sand, or on a ski slope.  I've only packed one guy out of the sand, in my life, to help a buddy that broke his leg - shiit, that was @DNP and me that got him out.  I've packed a fuk-ton of broken people off ski slopes.  Sonny Bono fuckers going places they shouldn't be in.

That's good news.

I always felt that first aid courses, supplies and AED should at a minimum be tax deductable 

[Magwa]

20 hours ago, DNP said:

Well, when you come down for the fall shoot…stay an extra week or two and we’ll make it happen. 

absolutely