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I always hated that which is why I camped on Vendors or Washes 2-4.
 
rivermobster said:
If you miss having to drive through a mile of whoops, towing your trailer...

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#oldtimers
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You miss it so much you have been back, what once since they built the road?

Wash road is the best road (and the only one not maintained by Caltrans) I get to drive in California so no I don't miss that whooped out crap.

I miss the off weekends more I miss even more that if you got there on Thursday night you were one of the first, Now if you get there on Wednesday afternoon half the wash is taken up with cones and tape or just an awkwardly placed three campers........
 
MWB said:
You miss it so much you have been back, what once since they built the road?

Wash road is the best road (and the only one not maintained by Caltrans) I get to drive in California so no I don't miss that whooped out crap.

I miss the off weekends more I miss even more that if you got there on Thursday night you were one of the first, Now if you get there on Wednesday afternoon half the wash is taken up with cones and tape or just an awkwardly placed three campers........
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Definitely one of the reasons I haven't been back.

😕
 
Figure I'm just gonna roll back into 13 for the principle. Whoops didn't bug me much; helped keep the dust down because most people drove slow through the washes. Bonus chance of watching somebody break their stuff being idiots.
 
Sand Hwy to Garbage Flats used to be my gig towing my 40' 5er. It was exciting when they added the Vendors/Flats ramp and I didn't have to go all the way to the store to get on sandhwy.
Prior to that it was a 11.5' cabover and flatbed....which I just drove off the side of 78 and back up it to leave avoiding all the whoops. 😁
Only time it bit me was when the truck decided to pick our camp spot and buried both axles. By end of weekend I'd dug/prepped its freedom & drove right out.💪
 
In the 80's and 90's we camped on Gecko or Vendor Flats, wasn't really a big issue to squeeze in somewhere even on the busiest weekends.
Late 90's when I started meeting and camping with "Online" Duners from the ASA and here, I camped by the Old Canal, the Compound and the Washes.

Going back to Wash 10 was not bad on the old road, past that no thanks LOL. Wife simply was like "NO" to that bumpy ride.

There are no areas these days where its isolated, except in Xanadu where @Bansh88 and @Chummin would camp in their trucks.
 
MWB said:
You miss it so much you have been back, what once since they built the road?

Wash road is the best road (and the only one not maintained by Caltrans) I get to drive in California so no I don't miss that whooped out crap.

I miss the off weekends more I miss even more that if you got there on Thursday night you were one of the first, Now if you get there on Wednesday afternoon half the wash is taken up with cones and tape or just an awkwardly placed three campers........
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Can you put cones and tape out there? I would just assume someone would just move them?
 
RiverDave said:
Can you put cones and tape out there? I would just assume someone would just move them?
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You are technically not allowed to save spaces, some places you can get away with it more than others. Some people will move them, but most will just try and fit into the space left. I have had a couple experiences over the years, best was the guy roped of a football field worth of sand and over the next few days as our group showed up, we just shrunk his camp down to about a hockey arena. You could see the guy in the morning scratch his head as a rigs had appeared overnight outside of his taped area but was awful close to his trailer. What was he going to do though, the families were parked anchors dropped and were not going anyplace.

Most times you just talk with the people and just agree to make sure we all have a route to get to the road and to the dunes.
 
MWB said:
You are technically not allowed to save spaces, some places you can get away with it more than others. Some people will move them, but most will just try and fit into the space left. I have had a couple experiences over the years, best was the guy roped of a football field worth of sand and over the next few days as our group showed up, we just shrunk his camp down to about a hockey arena. You could see the guy in the morning scratch his head as a rigs had appeared overnight outside of his taped area but was awful close to his trailer. What was he going to do though, the families were parked anchors dropped and were not going anyplace.

Most times you just talk with the people and just agree to make sure we all have a route to get to the road and to the dunes.
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One of my last trips to Glamis we setup at the end of some absurdly high wash number.. a guy comes in and parks sideways right on the road.. I said hey buddy some of us have to get out of here on Saturday he said no problem he will move when his friends get here..

Needless to say after his friends got there they just make their big ass circle right off that motorhome.

People are assholes
 
That is why we go to Buttercup....1 minute from pavement and 1 minute from the dunes.

OHHH, stay away, you won't like it
 
Wash road. Going for ever but last time I was on before they closed it down. Got there Friday night Halloween with the new buggy. “Let’s just take wash road and sand highway to olds, you know keep it safe and keep eye on the new buggy”. Camped in 10. Heading towards the highway. Rhino (when they first came out) coming the other way around wash 4 decided to turn right into us. It was Friday night and Wash road was packed with people coming in and here we are blocking the road with this nonsense. Rhino flipped on its side, they were very drunk. Sliced the front wheel (tire made it out) I hit my nose somewhere on the rhino was bleeding buddy said “you’ll be fine” , dog in the back seat flopped around but undamaged, rear wheel bent out 90° with trailing arm. Buddy grabbed there keys to the rhino and chucked them as far as he could out into the desert on other side of tracks. Drug the buggy back and onto the trailer and we’re headed home within 2 hours of getting there. The one and only bad experience in 50 years. Fixed the buggy for nearly nothing. (Couldn’t do that with the current buggy).
 
Stinky said:
That is why we go to Buttercup....1 minute from pavement and 1 minute from the dunes.

OHHH, stay away, you won't like it
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I can’t go there with the wife. The one time I took her to buttercup it was so windy and she was convinced it was from all the trucks going by on the highway (she’s really pretty tho)!!
 
RiverDave said:
Can you put cones and tape out there? I would just assume someone would just move them?
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This is higly frowned upon. So what everyone reverts to is chairs, tires, trash cans, quads, wifes/kids car, trucks, trailers.
 
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