Sand Shark
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- May 5, 2021
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Got back yesterday from Glamis. Got there Christmas day and the place was pretty empty. The washes had scatterings of camps. Gecko had some space from what I could see. I was the first in the group to arrive and was able to get a nice spot in Wash 15. With the rain hitting it made everything nice and compact. No dust issues the entire time. The wind made everything nice and smooth in the dunes. There were some of those weird wind whip bumps on the top of some of the bigger dunes. Otherwise the dunes were great.
Overall a great trip with no issues for my X3. We had several in our group that made the trip from Texas. A great group of guys and they like to dune. We call them the Texas turtles after the very first time we met them in Glamis. A few decided to turtle there cars that trip. LOL! No Texas turtles this trip. We did have a newbie turtle though. LOL!
Took the Texas crew down to Buttercup so they could check out the border wall and enjoy the fun of the Buttercup dunes. Gordon's was almost a ghost town. I think Buttercup had more people camping.
Carnage for the week was 3 Polaris belts, one polaris power steering unit (Coyne in El Centro took care of that and I can not say enough how great the service and parts department at the dealership are when you need something. They try to save your trip.), and one Polaris Turbo motor after the oil drain plug somehow fell out. Also some cosmetic damage and a radiator for the car that end up on the lid. Oh and one broken axle on the RS1. Almost forgot, my buddy finally took out his belt on his X3 after 3200+ miles. Those were almost all dune miles too.
My buddy @megadesertdiesel drives the crap out of that RS1. Drifting the turns and jumping where he can. They look like an absolute blast to drive.
Lots of fuel was burned and lots of dune miles covered. I think I was around 400 miles for the 5 days.
Overall a great trip with no issues for my X3. We had several in our group that made the trip from Texas. A great group of guys and they like to dune. We call them the Texas turtles after the very first time we met them in Glamis. A few decided to turtle there cars that trip. LOL! No Texas turtles this trip. We did have a newbie turtle though. LOL!
Took the Texas crew down to Buttercup so they could check out the border wall and enjoy the fun of the Buttercup dunes. Gordon's was almost a ghost town. I think Buttercup had more people camping.
Carnage for the week was 3 Polaris belts, one polaris power steering unit (Coyne in El Centro took care of that and I can not say enough how great the service and parts department at the dealership are when you need something. They try to save your trip.), and one Polaris Turbo motor after the oil drain plug somehow fell out. Also some cosmetic damage and a radiator for the car that end up on the lid. Oh and one broken axle on the RS1. Almost forgot, my buddy finally took out his belt on his X3 after 3200+ miles. Those were almost all dune miles too.
My buddy @megadesertdiesel drives the crap out of that RS1. Drifting the turns and jumping where he can. They look like an absolute blast to drive.
Lots of fuel was burned and lots of dune miles covered. I think I was around 400 miles for the 5 days.
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