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♦ Coral Pink was once again the trip of the year. In fact, many of us felt that this was one of the best Coral Pink trips ever. The weather was perfect, the dunes were beautiful, and we are looking forward to next year. Read all about it through-out this month’s extended newsletter.

♦ Now that Coral Pink is over, it is time for the August Lake Havasu trip, which Don and Shirley have offered to host again this year the weekend of August 17-19. We’ll see you there.

♦ First Hawaii and now Alaska! IEOA is not limited to the lower 48. Shirley Ford spent some time in Alaska before Coral Pink, and got some pictures of the bright sky in the

middle of the night, and apparently battled with their state bird, the mosquito! Sounds like quite a fun and different place to explore.

♦ It Runs! On Tuesday July 24th John Cole fired up his stor-age locker V8 in his sandrail using a stock computer with a wiring harness that he modified for it. It sounds good!

Coral Pink, Version 19, 2012 by Jim Kastle We had one of the best ever Coral Pink trips this year. We survived record heat in Mesquite Monday thru Wednesday. The most notable event at Mesquite was Doug’s good luck at the casino and the resultant Wednesday night Pizza fest hosted by him. Thanks again Doug. We caravanned to Coral Pink and P.J. and Melissa noted that we had 8 vehicles for the 9 adults. This because Shirley towed the RZR behind the truck while Don drove the motor home; Nancy wanted her car for touring around Coral Pink because she has never driven our dually; Walt towed his trailer; while P.J. was the only driver lucky enough to have a passenger, in fact two

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August 17th-19th: Lake Havasu Trip at Don

and Shirley’s. Join the group for

fun on the water, great meals,

and a good time hanging out.

September 14th-16th: Sand Sports Super Show

at the Orange County Fair-

grounds in Costa Mesa.

September 22nd or 23rd: Possible season kickoff

picnic at The Huggards’ home

in Highland. Let someone

know if you have a preference

of Saturday or Sunday and look

for details next month.

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It is with a heavy heart that I'm writing to inform everyone that my wife, Mona, passed away Wednesday afternoon from pancreatic can-cer. She was at home with loved ones nearby. Though we will miss her, we are all grateful that her pain and suffering have ended and she is now at peace. The Bacon family has been associ-ated with IEOA for more than 20 years now and have come to think of you all as dear sand covered, exhaust scented friends of ours. Mona would often complain about going out to Glamis, but even though she tried to hide it, I could always tell she was excited to see everyone. The day before any trip, our house would be filled with the scent of "Mona Roca" reserved specially for nights out at the fire. She wouldn't even let me taste test any! Some of our fondest

memories together are from trips with the club, like having to borrow toilet paper from Doug and Kris on our very first trip out or the time when Mona broke her ankle on Spa-ghetti Dinner Night and was carried to the truck by Buick Bob. She would always smile when we arrived to camp for another week-end of adventure, knowing she was in the company of true friends. Mona really loved all of you IEOA folks. A big thank you to all of you for the fond memories over the years. While things won't ever be quite the same without her by my side (and without everyone coming up to the trailer trying to get some "Mona Roca" be-

fore Jim got his hands on it), I look forward to seeing you all again soon in the upcoming duning season. Mona's own wishes were that we do not hold a funeral service, but once everyone has had enough time to grieve we will be holding a life celebration get together. Once everything is planned, I will post the information for anyone who would like to attend. Mike Bacon

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passengers; and Kris towed the trailer with the new RZR and her buggy, while Doug towed Mike’s fifth wheel. Yep, Doug gave up on his original ranger, which started the IEOR side by side craze, and bought a new RZR XP LE, which is beautiful and equipped with power steering. We were supposed to be joined by Rick and Melanie Alonso, but their motor home overheated in Victor-ville, ending their trip. They missed a great trip. Upon our arrival at the park we were pleased by the warm greeting of the rangers who clearly remember us from years past. We were also pleased that the group site has a new canopy to provide shade and shelter from the rain. The temperature was on the warm side Thursday afternoon, but cooled off the rest of the week. We even had welcome rain several days. See P.J.’s article for day by day reports of our activities.

Highlights of this year’s trip for me included many great rides, both buggy and side by side; a great meal with a fantastic waitress at our traditional breakfast at the Thunderbird in Mt Carmel junction; an afternoon at the local gun range for P.J. and me; several evening campfires; several visits by the ranger, who just came by to talk; Nancy not being confined to camp without a car; and most im-portantly, the companionship of a great, although small, group. On Friday the sand was the softest we can remember, due to a lack of rain since April. Fortunately, it rained early in the trip and the sand firmed up a great deal.

It was firm enough Sunday that we went on a combined RZR and buggy ride all the way to the corral. Shirley was pleased that she was able to climb the hill by the corral, having come so close, but never cresting it last year. She credits her new paddles, with an assist from the wet sand. Later in the week Shirley and Don lent P.J. and me her RZR, and the three RZR’s set off on a ride to the overlook that we hadn’t been to in probably 15 years. On that earlier trip we took the buggies up the long, narrow trail to the overlook, but have not tried it since because it is too narrow and rocky for the full sized cars. We couldn’t believe it this year that we actually took the buggies up there. The trail is perfect for the RZR’s, however. P.J. and I were extremely impressed by their ability in the rocky areas of the trail where the sand had been washed away by the rain. They are truly amazing in their versatility. They do it all, trails, rocks, sand, even streets if so equipped. Saturday came all too early, and we packed up and headed for Mesquite. Walt, still scarred by last year’s Sun-day Vegas traffic, decided to drive straight home, while the rest of us stayed at the CasaBlanca. We had our now traditional Eureka buffet Saturday night, and the CasaBlanca buffet Sunday morning. We separated at the CasaBlanca and headed our separate ways, with many fond memories of a great trip. We can’t make reserva-tions for next year for a couple of weeks, but hope for the same 9 days next year. We hope to be joined by many others, especially Rick and Melanie. - Jim

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Everybody went on this ride to the Corral, including the RZRs. Check out how Kris and Doug’s toys match.

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By P.J. Kastle: We figured out this year we had 10 people on the trip, 9 adults, and 8 vehicles driving to the park. So much for carpool-ing. Continuing the countdown, we had 7 trailers, 6 spare paddle tires, 5 buggies, 4 crew cab trucks, 3 RZRs, 2 duallys, and 1 motor home. Obviously we also had too much time to think about this too. We hope you enjoy the details of this awesome trip. Thursday, July 12: We got up in Mesquite and met for the planned 8:00 AM breakfast buffet at the Virgin River. After filling up on made to order omlettes, the usual breakfast fare, and even pizza, we headed back to get hooked up and ready to go. We were on the road by 10:05, and headed up through the Virgin River gorge. We had some cloud cover, so it was cooler than it had been and we climbed right up into St. George. Just before the the Hurricane turn-off, Kris got on the radio and said Walt was loosing tire pieces. Soon after, what was left of the tire left the rim and went into the ditch. Doug, Walt, and I changed the tire along the side of the freeway, while the rest of the group went ahead and waited at the Harley Davidson dealership at the off ramp. We didn't time our pits top, but it was pretty darn quick. Soon after we were back on the road, and didn't stop again until we got to the park. At the entrance we were greeted by the usual Rangers, who welcomed us back and let us know that a covered Gazebo had been added to the group site. We got all the rigs situated and enjoyed being there, and we didn't even go for a ride. We did see Doug's new RZR, which is a 900 with nice Fox shocks and cool blue graphics. That evening we got some rain, which made a great start to the trip. Friday, July 13th:

We started Friday the 13th by getting ready and going for our first buggy ride of the trip. Don, Jim, Walt, and I went all the way to the Corral and found the sand to be the softest we could recall. Melissa was with us, and we saw Cows in the dunes! We decided to head back because the wind picked up and we saw rain in the distance. Then Jim got stuck on a hill and ended up backing into a tree, which meant we had to figure out how to pull the car over so it could back the rest of the way down the hill. Fortunately Melissa looked at the situation and asked why we didn't just use the winch to pull the front end around, which worked out great. Then we figured out I was low on fuel, so we transferred some from my Dad's. Then his fuel pump stopped and we had to hot wire it to get back to camp. By the time we got there we found we had missed quite a rain

storm, but in the upper dunes we hadn't gotten a drop. Later that afternoon it rained some more, with the rain starting with a downpour. I cooked dinner on the barbecue in the rain, and by about 8 PM the rain let up and we went for a sunset walk to the overlook.


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Crossword Answers from last month:

Saturday, July 14th: We started the day by packing up to go to Kanab in search of Yard Sales, since we had read about there being one at a storage yard. We found it, and got some cheap little items. We also visited the used stores and got lunch before heading back to the dunes. Kris, Doug, and Walt had taken the RZRs and Kris' buggy out before going in for lunch. That after-noon we sat under the canopy and watched more rain roll in. It ended up raining most of the afternoon, but just before sunset it cleared up and a huge rainbow appeared. Sunday, July 15th: Just before sunrise we heard rain on the roof again. It cleared up by the time the sun came up, and it was a beautiful morning. Because of the recent rain, we figured it would be a good time for the RZRs to go out to the corral. It turned out that this was the only time we had everybody together on one ride, so it was one of my favorites. Walt led in the

sandrail, and Jim, Kris, Doug, Shirley, Don, and I followed. We made it to the corral with no problems, and Shirley climbed right up the hill. After a break we explored some trails on the upper section and found a tight spot we had to back up to get Jim's and my cars through. Kris found a better way through, but Doug went to the left and found a steep hill with a tree stump right in his path. He stopped before hitting it, but the RZR was sitting on a steeper than 45 degree hill and slid down when we tried to move it over away from the tree. Having learned from Melissa, we decided to pull the up hill end of the RZR around and down the hill. Sitting sideways on that steep hill made it feel quite tippy, and Doug was still holding on tight with his seat belts on, but we got it to where he could back up away from the tree. He backed up and almost used Don for traction, but he got free



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and we had a nice ride back to camp. Back at camp we had lunch and then sat around. We took Allie for her first coral pink ride, through the dunes to the Ranger station. After greeting and saying goodbye to each of the animals, we headed back to camp and got the seats covered before some afternoon showers. We enjoyed everyone's company and went to bed before 10 PM as there were some impressive thunderstorms passing by just North of the park. Monday, July 16th: We started the day with Doug, Walt, Kris, and Shirley going for a RZR ride while Don, my Dad, and I went for a buggy ride. They went to Dixie Knoll and we went to the corral. We also went down the Disneyland trail four times, taking each of the different forks. One change this year is someone cut a new trail that connects straight to the last part on the left, eliminating a somewhat hard left uphill turn. We had fun climbing back up the next trail over, until we dug it up so much that I had to take two shots at it the last time. Then we headed through the lower dunes toward camp and once we were almost there my left front A-arm had an insert pull out which dropped that corner into the sand. We jacked it up and strapped it together to get back to camp. Once there, we welded it up using the 50 amp power in the group site and an adapter my Dad had made new for this trip. We also welded Walt's RZR whip mount, and then headed to Kanab just as a thunderstorm rolled in. We did grocery shopping and mailed a package to Mike, then got ice cream for dessert. We got back to camp just after another thunderstorm, then the sky cleared up and people played games and cooked dinner. About sunset we de-cided it was a little chilly so we had a campfire, and enjoyed the new fire pit they had added to the group site. Tuesday, July 17th:

This was the day we had picked to go to the Thunderbird for breakfast. Af-ter having our best trip ever up there last year, we were hoping the same wait-ress and manager would be there, and she was. She remembered our group, and had no problem with our custom orders and substitutions. After breakfast, Melissa and I headed for Cedar City and St. George. We were surprised to find the road closed at Cedar Breaks for rock slide repair, so we detoured up through Cedar Breaks and into Brian Head, which is a neat ski resort town at 10,500 ft elevation. The ski lifts go every which way from the middle of town, and we even drove under one. We then headed to Parowan, which is on I-15 15 miles North of Cedar City. Then we had our usual fun day of shop-ping. Meanwhile, Jim and Nancy went for a drive to Page AZ and did a loop

crossing the river South of the dam and heading towards the road to the North Rim of the Grand canyon and then head-ing back up into Fredonia and Kanab. Everyone else had a good long RZR ride and then we all met up at camp that night and enjoyed another campfire. Wednesday, July 18th: We got up and got ready to go for morning rides. Walt went with Shirley, Doug, and Kris in the RZRs while Don, my Dad, and I went for a buggy ride. We covered the upper dunes and saw more of how the different valleys connect. After we got back to camp, my Dad and I worked on my generator which had developed an exhaust leak. It turned out to just be loose, so we used high temp silicone and tightened it up, and also straightened out the flange a little bit, so it is the best it has been in a long time. Then we headed to the gun range outside of Kanab. My Dad recently got a Glock 9mm



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and we had been shooting at the river, and we got to enjoy the free public range near Kanab. It was fun, and afterward we went into town for some ice cream. We got back to camp in time to go for a sunset ride in the buggies with Walt. Later we had a nice campfire to round out another perfect Coral Pink day. Thursday, July 19th: This morning we decided to have a big RZR ride to the corral and then up the trail to the petroglyphs that leads to the ridge on top of the cliffs overlooking camp and the dunes. Originally I planned on staying back in camp while my Dad rode with Walt, but Don and Shirley offered my Dad and I her RZR so I rode with my Dad in it. We had a great time, and we're really impressed with all it would do. We climbed some of the steepest sand hills with both of us in it, and then did some narrow trails and rock crawl-ing that it made seem effortless. After the overlook cliff, Walt led us to a tall slot can-yon they had visited before. We did more trails, and got back to camp about 2 PM. Then we sat around for the afternoon and eventually went for a sunset ride in the bug-gies. When we got back, I set up the projector so we could see the pictures and video we had gotten from earlier in the week on the front of Jim's trailer from the campfire, which worked out great. Friday, July 20th: This morning we got up and decorated for Melissa's birthday. My Mom had bought balloons and streamers in town and they made the new cover look festive. We got ready for everybody to go for a buggy ride, but the RZRs decided to stay out of the dunes and went out separate, and then Don my Dad and I went for a buggy ride. On the ride Don spot-

ted a big coyote at the dead tree where we took pictures. After the ride, Melissa and I went to Kanab for one last visit. It was here that we got Mike's email about Mona's passing. We would bring the iPad to camp so everyone could read Mike's message. Also in town, Melissa found that her favorite little fabric store had relocated when the hardware store it was in closed. The same nice old man was run-ning it, and he talked for an hour about his first wife of 45 years who passed away, his mean second wife, his divorce, etc. We also got a Lotsa Motsa pizza to take home for lunch. Back at camp, we found that it had been raining quite hard, and we sat around and watched it some more. We thought the riding be done, but the sky cleared and we took the group picture and then Kris wanted to go for one more ride.

She didn't have to twist Walt, my Dad's and my arms very hard, and we headed for the dunes. We went all the way to the end of the upper section of dunes, and took a break overlooking the white cliffs to the Northeast. Then we went back to camp and had dinner and celebrated Melissa's birthday with cake and ice cream.



The view from the cliffs overlooking the sand dunes and campground. It is a narrow fairly rocky trail to get there, but the RZRs did great.

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Saturday, July 21st: This morning we got up and started packing, which we delayed by riding last night. It is sad to leave our dunes to the other off readers who had showed up, but we had thoroughly enjoyed them. Don, Shirley, Kris and Doug made it out shortly after 9:00, while my parents, Walt, and I stayed and packed our stuff up for a couple more hours. It was nice and cool, and de-spite some sprinkles early in the morning the skies were beautiful with puffy white clouds. It made it hard to leave, especially knowing it would be well over 100 degrees in Mesquite, but we were glad to know we would be back in only 51 weeks. We stopped by the Ranger station on the way out and gave them a flash drive of pic-tures and thanked them for the great week. It really is neat how we have developed a relationship with them, and now they know us when we show up. We headed out the dirt road and despite being stopped by a trailer tire blowout before the Hurricane hill (which only took 10 minutes to change) we were in St. George by 2:00 Utah time. Melissa and I stopped to get a new tire while Walt and my parents continued on to Mesquite. Walt decided not to spend the night, but stopped for fuel and kept on his way. We got our tire and were only off the freeway for 45 minutes, and joined everybody else at the Casablanca soon after. We swam and then met up for the dinner buffet at the Eureka. Sunday, July 22nd: This morning we had one last group meal at the Casablanca buffet. Allie voted for swimming one more time, but we decided to leisurely pack up and get on the road before it got too hot. We pulled out of the RV park at 10:15. My Dad ran with us, as my Mom was already on her way to Golden Valley. My Dad turned off in Vegas, and we continued on

towards Primm. At Primm, we not only found the traffic, but noticed that an-other trailer tire had thrown its tread. One lug nut was stuck, and I broke two sockets trying to get it loose. Fortunately the third socket worked, and I didn't even break the stud off. Then we were headed up the hill towards Baker and almost to the top when we smelled Diesel fuel additive. Fearing that Shelby had opened the ammo box in the back and gotten into one of the empty contain-ers, we headed for the Bailey road exit. At the exit, we saw that the smell was coming from fuel pouring out of the motor and leaving a 2 foot wide trail be-hind us. We got everybody out of the truck and shut it off. Fortunately it had cooled off, and was just sprinkling so the weather couldn't have been better. I started taking pieces off of the motor n search of the leak, and eventually found

it to be a small hard line from the passenger side head back to the pump. It leaked with just the key on, which was a good indication that it was a low pressure line, not a high pressure injection line, so I had hope of being able to fix it. I ended up cutting the line where it had cracked (right next to a support bracket) and got a piece of rubber fuel line out of the sandrail, along with two hose clamps off of my overflow bottle. I clamped the line in place connecting the two cut ends of the truck fuel line, crossed my fingers, and tested it. It didn't leak, so I put the intake back together and we were on our way. In the process of the couple hour repair, it sure was great to have offers of help from both my Dad and John, who each were willing to head our way with whatever parts, trucks, trailers, or anything we needed. I am glad though that we were able to get it up and running with what we had with us. We ended up meeting John, Anna and Brianna for dinner in Victorville, and besides Shelby getting into my not put away tool bag and eating it and my multimeter, we didn't have any more issues. We made it home just after 9PM and left the trailer in the driveway to be unpacked later. We sure had a great trip though, and can't wait to do it again next year.


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This month we’d like to extend our condolences to the whole Bacon family. We all feel a sense of loss, and I can not imagine how difficult such a sudden loss must be for them. We’d also like to thank Jim Kastle and Mike Bacon for sending in articles. Next month we will hopefully have even more Coral Pink coverage, and reports from Lake Havasu as well. If you have anything else you think might be of interest to the group, write it up and send it in. Also if you have plans for upcoming trips that we don’t have listed let us know so we can put them on the calendar and on the website. -PJ, Melissa and of course Allison

Thank you to those of you who had such a positive reaction to the ini-tial iOS tips over the last couple of months. What else do you want to see here? Let us know what you think or offer your own suggestions by e-mailing: [email protected].

Simple Tips Get Street View in the Maps App: Melissa just found this online and I couldn’t believe it was this simple. You can access Google street view pictures of any location that has them straight from the maps app. First, get a pin on a location (either by searching for that address or tapping and holding your finger over a spot on the map). Then tap the head of the pin, and then tap the little person icon on the left side of the text bubble with the address or location name. The street level view at that location will open in the Maps app. Swipe and Pinch in the Camera App: On either the iPhone or iPad 2 or later (with a camera), when you are in the camera app you can quickly see the last picture taken by swiping your finger to the right. Swiping back to the left takes you back to the camera. This is quicker than using the little icon on the bottom left of the screen. On an iPad, you get the extra option of pinching with all of your fingers (or at least 4 of them) to close the camera app. View newsletters in iBooks: Last month we showed using iBooks for PDF manuals, but it works great for club newsletters too. Just go to the club website and pick a newsletter from the left side of the home page. Then hold your finger on it, select open, and then tap the top of the page and tap the “Open in iBooks” button. It will be saved for convenient offline viewing. You can flip pages and pinch zoom too, making it really easy to catch up on the latest club news.

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If you have any questions or sug-gestions for the iOS corner, send them to: [email protected] and we will answer them in future editions of the newsletter.

Q: How do I put pictures onto the iPad from another computer?

A: You can transfer them to a memory card or flash drive and use the camera connection kit (or other USB or SD card to iPod connector adapter) as long as they are named in folders like a camera does, with 8 character names in a folder named “DCIM”. This makes the iPad think they are from a camera, and they will import into the Photos app.

2006 Polaris Ranger XP. 525 hrs. Adjustable height front suspension, Maxxis Bighorn tires all around. HID headlights, custom leg minders, rear bumper, bed cage with spare tire mount, and cross bar with grab han-dle. Engine stock with K&N and Uni Filters, DynaTek Fuel Controller, FMF silencer with Spark Arrestor. Team roller clutch, and drive con-verted to newer style belt. Four point harnesses. All stock parts as well as extra parts, including full shop manual on DVD included. This has been a great vehicle for us. It literally goes anywhere it will fit, and some places it doesn't! It will fit in most toy haulers, including separate garage toy haulers (114” oa length). Regular maintenance al-ways done, been using full synthetic oil since new. It is ready to go any-where, any time. Would love to keep it, but illness forces sale. Mike Bacon 951-315-7351, or [email protected] $6,500.00 OBO. Special deal for IEOA friends. Thanks!

During our Coral Pink trip this year, all of our mobile photo uploads to the club site were done from the iPad. Using the Shutterfly app we were able to select pictures, and then upload them from town where we had good 3G service. It made things so much easier than using the laptop and look-ing for Wi-Fi like we used to.

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