Beautiful!
Planned to meet up in Smith Canyon at 9am and was running on time till I realized I forgot to pack a sand flag. 20 minutes later I was sitting at the same light on 395 again. Unloaded and packed fornthe day I took a pic of the days participants.
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Just me and Bingo, off to explore to outer perimeter fence line!
The desert flowers were definitely in bloom
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We explored the northwest fence line, definitely the lower traffic side of the dunes. Only saw 2 bikes and one sxs roll through. After finding a nice open dune we hopped out and played fetch for a bit.
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It didn't take Bingo long to figure out playing ball in sand tastes HORRIBLE and he wasn't digging his paws sinking in sand.
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With him content with snoozing I figured it was a good time to pull out a radio and wire and see if I could make an activation. Juniper was recently added to the P.O.T.A. list of parks. California, Canada, Texas, Mexico, ect...
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With the radio wrapped up and the pup tucked back in the Jeep it was time to head back to the trailer. I never officially "aired down" and definitely needed 4wd and the rear locker on more than one hill. I got some odd looks from one group at the main parking lot headed out to the dunes AND back towards Smith. Maybe its my red doors on a white Jeep
It was a nice day, and amazing weather. Much quieter than most dune runs and I definitely missed a nice snow run but can't have it all.
