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1 We had a fun late season trip to Dumont. Next year let’s plan on fitting it in the schedule a little earlier to hope for some cooler weather, but it worked out very well. Coral Pink is right around the corner. Many of us are very excited about getting ready for the upcoming trek to Utah. Test your past trip knowledge with the quiz on page 11. River season is here, and many members will be making trips out to get wet this summer. We will have the Annual Havasu trip in August, but check the newsletters and web- site for more info as many of us will be headed to Cotton- wood Cove as well. Post your trips and maybe someone else will join in on the fun. This month we got a lot of newsletter submissions, and that let us have a 12 page newsletter in a month where we often don’t have any content. Thank you all for sending things in, and as the variety in this newsletter shows, you don’t have to just write about a dune trip for it to be interesting. Let everyone know how you’ll be spending your summer, and others will share their stories as well. Dumont, May 17-20 by Jim Kastle I left Golden Valley Thursday morning, and stopped for gas in Bullhead, where regular was $3.63 per gallon and diesel $3.93 per gallon. I love Arizona so far! I proceeded through Searchlight, and on to Baker, where I bought my pass. I realized the Valero has a Dairy Queen, home of one of my new favor- ite deserts, the Blizzard. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity and while ordering mine I got a call from Dave Medlin asking it I had my nitrogen bottle, as he found his shocks badly needed to be charged. I assured him I did, and he said he’d see me Friday around 3:00. I proceeded towards Dumont and saw the temperature was 113! I had originally questioned whether I would go if it were hot, but had committed to going ear- lier in the week when I saw a forecast of 105 for Thursday. I began to question my commitment, but kept going. When I got to Dumont the wind was blowing about 40 MPH, and it was 110. I fired up the generator and A/C and waited for (Continued on page 2)

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In this edition of The Rooster, we cover the recent Dumont trip, as well as the Easter trip from The Hagens' perspective. Mike Bacon writes about the Lucas Off Road Races, Shirley and Don travel East, and P.J. and Melissa write about rebuilding a pontoon boat. You can't say this one doesn't have some variety! And if that's not enough, we also look forward to Coral Pink!

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♦ We had a fun late season trip to Dumont. Next year let’s plan on fitting it in the schedule a little earlier to hope for some cooler weather, but it worked out very well.

♦ Coral Pink is right around the corner. Many of us are very excited about getting ready for the upcoming trek to Utah. Test your past trip knowledge with the quiz on page 11.

♦ River season is here, and many members will be making trips out to get wet this summer. We will have the Annual Havasu trip in August, but check the newsletters and web-site for more info as many of us will be headed to Cotton-wood Cove as well. Post your trips and maybe someone else will join in on the fun.

♦ This month we got a lot of newsletter submissions, and that let us have a 12 page newsletter in a month where we often don’t have any content. Thank you all for sending things in, and as the variety in this newsletter shows, you don’t have to just write about a dune trip for it to be interesting. Let everyone know how you’ll be spending your summer, and others will share their stories as well.

Dumont, May 17-20 by Jim Kastle I left Golden Valley Thursday morning, and stopped for gas in Bullhead, where regular was $3.63 per gallon and diesel $3.93 per gallon. I love Arizona so far! I proceeded through Searchlight, and on to Baker, where I bought my pass. I realized the Valero has a Dairy Queen, home of one of my new favor-ite deserts, the Blizzard. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity and while ordering mine I got a call from Dave Medlin asking it I had my nitrogen bottle, as he found his shocks badly needed to be charged. I assured him I did, and he said he’d see me Friday around 3:00. I proceeded towards Dumont and saw the temperature was 113! I had originally questioned whether I would go if it were hot, but had committed to going ear-lier in the week when I saw a forecast of 105 for Thursday. I began to question my commitment, but kept going. When I got to Dumont the wind was blowing about 40 MPH, and it was 110. I fired up the generator and A/C and waited for

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July 10th (or earlier) - 12th: Pre-Coral Pink time in

Mesquite Nevada.

July 12th-21st : Coral Pink! We’ll be in

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July 21st: We’ll spend the night in

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others. It was not until 7:00 when John and Anna showed up. John had promised Anna a trip to Death Valley Friday. Friday morning, John told me Anna had changed her mind, “Because it was too hot.” I think she actually changed her plans because she and John didn’t want to leave me alone all day, as others who had posted that they would go to Dumont had not shown up. I greatly appreciated John and Anna’s change in plans, and John and I went for a 3 hour, 92 mile ride ALL over Dumont. 92 miles, and the only tracks we saw were ours! The only other person we saw was a mo-torcyclist set up in a day camp near comp hill. We returned to camp, and I took a nap in the A/C which I’d been running for nearly 24 hours by now. I woke up and visited John and Anna, and mentioned I might go to Pahrump, as I was a little short on gas, water, and ice due to the high heat. We decided to take a field trip, and John of-fered to drive. As we were heading out the road, Dave Medlin was heading in. We told him we’d be back before long. In Pahrump we found $3.76 regular and diesel, and a Dairy Queen. Another Blizzard! Wal-Mart had the needed wa-ter and ice, and Anna found a friend and former co-worker who is now a hair stylist at the Wal-Mart in Pahrump. We headed back to camp in time for an uneventful sunset ride. Scott and P.J. soon arrived, having met in Hesperia. Saturday morning we left before 8:00 for the ride, shortly after a group drove up and explained they were doing a photo shoot for the Von’s Employee Credit Union, and requested help getting supplies into the dunes. I wasn’t very interested, but when they offered a hundred dollars, John said “SOLD!” I offered to bring the stuff back for another $200, but they knew I was jok-ing. They said they would need help at 4:00 and we committed to help them. The only problem for P.J. and me was that we traditionally watch the NAS-CAR all-star race, and it was tonight at 4:00. We went on the morning ride, and heard Dave say he had a steering issue. It turns out he LOST a tie rod,

and despite all 5 of us looking, we could not find it. We de-cided to fabricate a new one using odds and ends that would normally be in the yellow trailer. Scott, Dave, and I re-turned to the trailer, leaving John and P.J. with the car, and still looking for the lost tie rod. Scott did a pretty good job of making a replacement tie rod. After we attached the new tie

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rod, P.J. mentioned his car was making a bad noise. We all listened, and agreed it was a rod knock, this on the high mileage engine he installed just before Gordon’s Well. We headed towards camp, and after about a quarter mile, the engine literally blew up, NASCAR style, with an oil trail, lots of smoke, and a hole in the side of the engine. Scott towed him back to camp. He got in my car and we went for another ride where the only tracks were ours, with the exception of a very few made by a couple of old school VW buggies slowly cruising the dunes. They were the only other buggies we saw all weekend. In fact, we only saw two other camps, the photo shoot group, and a group with three quads with no helmets and no whips. The was the fewest people I ever recall seeing at Dumont, with the possible exception of the fourth of July trip P.J. and I did about twelve years ago when we wanted to dune every month. Back in camp after the ride, John found he had broken some hub bolts, Scott needed to replace a steering U-joint, and I needed to fix my newer 2000 generator (sand had gotten in the switch, making it stick on the “off” position). While we were working on our projects, a very friendly BLM ranger came by and checked our permits. That’s the first time ever I have had my Dumont pass checked. Finally I got something for my $30.00! At four o’clock all four of the running buggies headed of to help with the photo shoot. I made two trips up the

hill with supplies, and then returned to camp to watch the race. John, Scott, and Dave stayed with the photo shoot and apparently were very helpful. The crew was so appreciative of their efforts; they doubled the $100 and gave John $200, and were pleased to do so. John, figuring it was a group effort, do-nated the money to the yellow trailer fund, which was severely in the red as a result of expenses incurred last season. It is still in the red, but not too far. We ended the day with the five guys and Anna sitting around a virtual campfire. We decided that because of the forecast for hot temperatures Sunday, a 7:00 ride was in order Sunday morning, followed by an early departure. Sunday we did leave for the ride at 7:00. The shadows were great, and we went for a long, fast ride. We were all pleased that Dave had an incident-free weekend. We took a break on a hill and everywhere we looked we could see tracks, and 99+% of them were ours. We had done a lot of riding. We were back in camp by 10:00 and all finished loading within 15 minutes of one

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That can’t be right… P.J.’s newly ventilated engine.

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another. We started towards the Mad Greek, when Scott got on the radio and said Dave was stuck. So much for a totally incident-free weekend. It seems Dave’s truck popped out of four wheel drive, and just sunk. Even back in four wheel drive, the truck couldn’t climb out of the hole the rears had dug. P.J.’s FORD, still connected to his trailer, hooked up to Dave’s CHEVY and pulled him out. (The caps are mine!, Jim) We caravanned to the Mad Greek, had a great lunch, and then I headed north on the 15 while the others headed south. It seemed a little odd to me.

It’s always hard to believe another dune season has come and gone. This one was special for me, as it was my first as a retiree. I sure have some good trainers helping me enjoy my retirement, thanks! I hope that next season goes a little bet-ter for P.J., in the engine department, and that we’ll be free of the burden of owning two homes, making me look forward even more to next year. Only 7 weeks until Coral Pink and I REALLY can’t wait for that. Let’s go dunin’! -Jim

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Don and I decided to take a cross country trip. Went to see Jerry and Linda in CO, then on to KS, MO, I'll. Ind., KY, TN., GA.,FL. In Tampa, I got see my Grandson and Great Grandson on Mothersday. Then on to Alabama, Miss. In Louisiana (we are going to Bourdon St. In New Or-leans. Then on to Texas, We will probably stop an see Darryl in El Paso. Then to home. I ate my first crawfish. They look like baby lobsters. They don't taste like lobster. Yuk. We call them little dudes craw dads. In Tenn. the highway had a 30 or 40 mile detour. Way back in the woods. I swear I could her someone picking a Banjo. I thought of the movie Deliverance. -Shirley and Don ( Tara )

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The 2012 Season Finale Our last trip for the season started on Thursday. The twins had missed the last 2 trips and so they were anx-iously awaiting the Easter trip to Gorden's Well. We picked them up the night before from campus and started packing the RV first thing in the morning. We planned on hitting the road by 10, but didn't get out of Fallbrook until 1. No problem, with daylight saving time now in effect, we had plenty of time. We arrived at camp around 4 and met with Jim, Chuck, Jerry and Linda and Walt. We had just parked the RV, when the Huggards showed up. 30 mins later the Porter's showed up. Camp was filling up fast. We unloaded and had dinner. Jim had gone back to Glamis to get the Yellow Trailer. It was dark and we were already by the fire when he showed up, the bad news was the delay was caused by a blown tire. The good news was he had every tool possible to fix it inside the trailer. The breeze was picking up and the forecast was for more wind tomorrow. Our friends from Fallbrook, the Loer's joined us later that night after spending an hour in Brawley trying to find a store that had passes to sell. They finally found one at Vons and arrived around 11pm. Mother nature turned the fan on thru the night and most of the day Friday, but it blew all the tracks away and left some smooth dunes to ride on. I was leading a quad ride and was trying to find the tram-poline. By crazy luck we stumbled across another odd landmark in the dunes. A steel swing set. By evening it was warm and perfect for a camp fire. Saturday the camp filled in with both Cole families, the Fords, the Bakers, the Downsworths, more Kastle's and a day later Steve Strum arrived. It was a good group gathering. The morning consisted of a whole bunch of cars and several quads. It was a quick ride and we covered lots of ground, with the help of GPS, we found the Call Box and Trampoline and then ended up at Test Hill. We flew down the old earth bottom canal and back to camp. All during the ride my car was experiencing some issues with the computer that was actually left over from my previous trip in March. The engine would shut down at 4000 rpm. Water in the fuel was the guess. I thought I had solved it at home with gas treatment and a new fuel filter. But it was still doing it. After the morning ride, John Cole offered an idea that it could be one of 2 sensors, (cam or crank position). Jim offered to drive to Yuma to get gas and ice and take me to the various parts stores he knew about. We first hit Napa, nothing in stock, next stop the Chevy dealership, only had one sensor for $110. Ouch, but that gave me a 50/50 chance. Then we tried O'Reilly's, bingo, royal flush, jack pot....... they had both sensors and around $40 each. You can bet we went back to Chevy to return their Gold Plated part. After stopping at Sam's Club for a quick bite to eat and getting 40# of ice, we headed back to camp. PJ helped me install the 2 sensors, the engine fired up. Then the call was, "Lets Ride"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We saddled up for a trip across the freeway to Butter-cup. Hayden was on his Banshee and wanted to really open it up on those fast dunes. We crossed the freeway and Hayden's bike started back firing, but once we got going along the border fence, he thought it cleared up. I had yet to "open" it up and as we finally hit the dunes Hayden's bike died. Jim asked how my car was running and so I stuck my foot in it and flew around a bowl a few times, had it up to 5200+ rpm's and no shut down.........John's diagnosis was spot on. A big thank you to John and to Jim for driving me to Yuma. I really appreciated that. Also thanks to everyone else who was scratching their head trying to figure out what was the

problem. I'm not a motor guy and I'll be the first one to admit it!!! With Hayden down for the count, my car turned into a tow truck and Hayden had to endure a slow ride back to camp at the end of a rope. The rest of the group was able to get a good ride in on the fast dunes. But we found out later

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that PJ broke a carrier bearing and in true club fashion went to work making the repairs to get him back to camp. Its amazing what they can do. That evening was supposed to be a last visit to Mamma Jeannie for Pizza, unfortunately PJ's repairs took a long time and the group did not get out of the dunes until after dark. That same day was my birthday and Linda let me buy my Birthday present a few days early. Yes, there is another GO-PRO in the club!!!! We played with it for the first time on the Fri-day rides, trying to figure out good mounting locations. Unfortu-nately I did not read the operating instructions very well, and thought I was recording, but turns out I was not!!! On Saturday, after a quick tutorial from PJ and a second reading of the instruc-tion booklet, I finally captured some good footage, especially of the kids on their quads. That evening we were had planned on staying in camp while the others went to see Mamma Jeannie and BBQ some burgers and dogs. Well to my surprise we had a few extra guests (Huggards, Porters, Loers and Chuck) at the table and celebrated me getting a little older. No cake with candles but Sharon whipped up a tasty strawberry dish and the Loers supplied some chocolate covered cream puffs. It was a nice warm evening and ended with a big gathering around the fire. The next day, Easter Sunday was picture perfect and getting warm fast. In usual club tradition, we parked all our toys in the middle. A few of us volunteered to hide close to 100 eggs, while the majority was sequestered behind the Kastle's trailer. PJ had his GO-PRO mounted on his car and I had mine on the opposite side of camp. We had it covered from both sides. The egg hunters were lined up and raring to go. 3-2-1- go!!! The stampede was on and within 10 mins all the eggs were found...at least we hope!!! Inside were tickets for vari-ous donated prizes and of course lots of sweet stuff that was beginning to melt. It was fun for all, young and

those young at heart!! A while later we gathered up to head out ot the dunes. Melissa and PJ had their high tech digital camera's and monster lenses ready to cap-ture some "action" shots. We found a good spot and zoomed around not knowing what they captured on film....oopps I mean chip. Be sure to check out our website for a cool series of photos of all the cars flying by. Thank you to Melissa and PJ for taking the shots and time to post them. From there we headed out for a ride to Patton Valley. I was filming the long train in front of me. Dale and Rebecca were in front for a while and looked like they were having lots of fun, throwing big roosts of sand on every turn. I waved Dave Hug-gard around hoping he would pull a wheelie or some-thing. Not 2 mins later I did capture Dave doing some-thing he had not planned on. He tried to change his

back tire while driving!! After a big blow of sand, I dodged around him. He was stuck on a steep hill with his right back tire lying several feet away. After we all circled back it was discovered that his rim had split in half. The back plate was still bolted on the hub. Other than some rub marks from the tire, he sustained no major damage to the car. Several cars went back to camp to get a spare while others stayed and secured the car from slipping down the dune. We had to anchor him off to 2 cars while Scott jacked the frame up out of the sand. Soon the team came back with a spare and Dave was back on 4 tires. Most importantly, we did not put a

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scratch on his car! After returning to camp we lounged around and later in the day I took the kids out on their quads for a last ride for the year. They had fun in the huge bowls. But all good things must come to an end, and that evening we packed everything up one last time. After dinner it was another visit with friends at the fire. Monday morning after a late breakfast, we said our good-byes and wished everyone a great summer. Hope to see you all next Thanksgiving and maybe a few at the River in August. On our way home we decided to drop the kids off on campus to save 2 hrs driving them to University of San Diego. We pulled on to the campus and the guard at the front gate thought we were lost and had made a wrong turn. He asked where the heck I was planning to go with 68' of rig. I told him we had scouted the roads and I knew I could make the turns. Sure enough, we dropped the twins off right in front of their dorm. 10 mins later we were back on the freeway and on our way home. We really enjoyed this season and look forward to many more rides with all our dune friends. Thanksgiving will be here sooner than we think!! On a side note, I would like to share a bit of personal news. A few know already, but others do not. I was not ready to make a big announcement at the fire so here is my opportunity. I was recently diagnosed with Stage 1 Prostate Cancer. Linda signed me up for a free screening here in Fallbrook back in November. Under protest I went. After receiving some preliminary bad news, I scheduled a needle biopsy in March to confirm my Urolo-gists findings. Unfortunately it came back positive. Gleason score of 7 (on a scale of 2-10) and Stage 1. Linda has been thru this with breast cancer 6 years ago and immediately jumped on the phone to our Ins. After inves-tigating several options and speaking to several others who have gone down this road already, I have decided that my best chance is with robotic surgery to remove it. Linda and I just had a consultation with the chief sur-geon at "City of Hope" medical center in Duarte. My operation is set for July 9. With only a 1 night stay in the hospital, I'll have approx 2 weeks of recuperation and I should be Cancer free. I can not stress to all the guys in our club that are over 50, if you have not had a screening go do it. This cancer is very treatable, but can be le-thal. My uncle died from it 5 years ago at age 72. Its in my DNA. I can't thank my wife for being persistent and basically saving my life. I owe her big time. Guess I'll be able to dune with you all for a bunch more years!! A second side note...5/15/12....Jeremy and Karissa are just finishing up their freshman year in College. Finals are next week. So after studying hard for several hours they decided to unwind with a bike ride around cam-pus. 15 mins into their ride, while on a bumpy dirt trail, Karissa did not negotiate a hill quite right. As she was sliding backwards, she put her foot down to steady herself and somehow flipped over and crashed. The good news is her head and brain were not injured. but.................her leg was pointing one direction and her foot was pointing another. She shattered 3 bones in her ankle. Jeremy sprung into action and called the campus security hotline. They scrambled a paramedic squad and she was on her way to Scripps Memorial in La Jolla. Jeremy then called us. We had a million questions but decided it was best to jump in the car asap. 30 min later we found her in the trauma center with a big fat ankle and in a lot of pain. The X-RAY's looked horrible, 3 breaks clearly visible After 3 doses of a morphine like drug, she finally was ready for them to set it in a temporary cast. We left the room so the nurses could do their job. 20 mins later they called us back. She was happy that part was over and was feeling no pain.....literally!!! We have an appt. tomorrow (5/17/12) with an orthopedic surgeon to review our options, but it will require titanium screws and pins. She is upset that it happened, the timing could not be worse. But it was an accident and life will go on. By the time you see her again, she hopes to be back on her feet.........literally. -The Fallbrook Four and Rudy

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Lucas Oil Offroad Races On the weekend of April 21 & 22 the Lucas Oil Offroad Races visited Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park, in, of all things, Lake Elsinore, CA! AJ, his girlfriend Alex, and I went on Sunday afternoon to see the pro classes run. We had a great time watching the VW and watercooled buggies, and all the truck classes. LEMP did a great job of building a track that was fast and challenging, with the entire track still being seen from the stands. Rumor has it there will be two race dates next year, April and possibly September or October. We are looking forward to going again. -Mike Bacon

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As some of you will remember, Melissa and I rebuilt a pontoon boat in 2007 that we bought from Fred Nass, a club member. We had fun with the project, and laid down the carpeting on the bare deck that we had bought and installed the railing, some minimal furniture, and made a working boat out of it in time for the 2007 club Cottonwood trip. Shortly after that, John came across a deal like he so often does, and we bought our current pontoon boat, a 1990 Lowe that had furniture on it, although it needed a little upholstery work. Well, we did some cleanup on the boat and took it to the river, where it has stayed for the last four seasons. At the end of last river season, we decided it was time for some upkeep, and we brought the boat home for carpet and uphol-stery work. My plan was for this to be a winter project, but the sand season came along and I had other things to spend money on, so the boat sat most of the winter. I got a bonus from work, and planned to spend it on the boat, but instead needed to buy another Shortstar before Easter. (Which turned out to be a short lived invest-ment...see the Dumont article) So finally, after the Easter trip I returned to working on the boat with what money I had left for it. We figured we’d reupholster the seats ourselves, and look for deals on carpet, and do whatever we could to get it cleaned up and ready for the upcoming river season. On April 14th, we spent part of the day at John’s removing the furniture to bring it home.

That night, I saw an ad on Craigslist for some pontoon seats. I called and left a message, and didn’t hear back until Sunday evening, when the owner called and said they were in Riverside, and had been removed from a Cheetah deckboat that they were doing a complete custom interior for. We were skeptical, but we went to look at the seats. Melissa decided they would save us (her) a whole lot of sewing, and I figured we could adapt them to make them fit our boat comfortably, so we worked a deal to get them for $500. We loaded them on our flatbed and headed home. I began working on a plan to build risers for the seats, since they sat quite low to the ground. I built the risers, and we headed up to John’s on another weekend to finish stripping the deck of

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the boat. With the deck stripped, we brought the console home to re-wire and reupholster it. Being the lucky one, I got the wiring job and left the sewing to Melissa. I did find some burned wiring from a “hook the battery up backwards” incident the previous owner had told us about, and found that it had been completely repaired us-ing no fewer than 15 Sctochlock quick connectors. It was amazing that we really hadn't had any trouble with it in the four years we used it. Melissa reupholstered the Captain’s chair, and despite a setback when I tore the

bottom of it on the driveway, she got it looking great. We went up to John and Anna’s again the following weekend and laid the carpet on the deck, along with

some vinyl flooring leftover from an elevator job for the back portion of the boat. We even brought up our new seats with the newly car-peted risers attached to them. I ended up raising the front benches with 2x6’s and the rear with 2x4s and it made them a really comfortable height. We sat the benches on that afternoon, and planned to return the following Saturday with the completed console to make some major

progress on the boat. That next weekend, I excitedly got everybody else up at 7 AM to go up and work on it, and we made some good progress getting the seats and railing mounted. I also decided to bring the boat home, so I could work on it in my driveway in hopes of having it ready for Memorial Day. With it at home I pulled wires and replaced most of them. I also hooked up my new speak-ers and interior lights that filled the holes in the new seats nicely. With just some minor details to finish up now, it looks like the boat will be ready for Memorial Day. Look for a report in a future newsletter on how the boat worked with the recent upgrades and improvements. -P.J.

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With Coral Pink a little over a month away (ok, six weeks, but it really is that close) we thought we would bring back the guessing game from last year where we list a Coral Pink newsletter article memory, and we let you guess which year it happened. The answers will be in next month’s newsletter, just in time for Coral Pink! Trip #1: “One of the things that I enjoyed, was passing this guy we met up there in a high dollar buggy and passing him on one of the hills. Heh, Heh, this old girl still has it. Tara (our dog) wants to thank Kris and Doug for the rides in their Polaris (Ranger Dan-ger). She would get in the Ranger without anyone telling her. She wanted to go on rides.”

Trip #2: “On the ride, Jim’s car heated up due to a worsening leak in the radiator. We added water and drove it back to camp, but decided not to risk getting it hot on a longer ride. I offered Jim a seat, as did Kris. What my Dad didn’t know at first was the seat Kris offered was the drivers seat, as she was willing to go for a ride in her car while letting Jim drive. After taking Kris up on her generous offer, Jim led us on a good fast ride through all of the dunes to the corral.”

Trip #3: “We arrived at park after no problems on the way up. We found that they had improved the group site by adding a lot of concrete and a tiled barbecue island with a stainless grill! There are also now more power outlets, but we found we couldn't run six airs at once, but they reset the main breaker for us. We didn't go for a ride, but we were all glad to be here.” Trip #4: “The four Kastles and Walt headed off to Bryce Canyon. Bryce remains one of my favorite Na-tional Parks, despite a $25.00 per car entry fee. The scenery is just breathtaking! Despite the fact the weather was hotter than normal this year; we still got rained and hailed on at Bryce. We have heard of a town, Pan-guitch, near Bryce, and decided to eat lunch there. We found a local hamburger stand with excellent food and friendly locals. We then decided to take a side trip to Panguitch Lake and Cedar Breaks.”

Trip #5: “We started the day with a morning ride with all of the cars and Mike taking pictures. He got some great shots. Then Don lost a belt and decided to head back while Kris Jim, Walt and I went on to the upper dunes. After we all made it back to camp, Melissa and I went into town with my parents and did some shopping and looked for a throw out bearing for my car, since mine was making noise. We didn’t end up finding one, but we met some nice locals who had recom-mendations on where we might find one. One place even suggested we check at the mortuary, since their son is into VWs.”

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This month we’d like to thank Mike Bacon, Pete Hagen, Jim Kastle, and Shirley Ford for sending in arti-cles. It is great to have a twelve page long newsletter during a month where most sane people don’t consider duning, and everyone is gearing up for their summer activities. 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. We needed to fill space once again, so here is round three. Let us know what you think or offer your own suggestions by e-mailing [email protected].

Free Stuff: After spending up to almost $1000 on your new iPad, perhaps you don’t want to buy more apps for it. Fortu-nately, some of our favorite iOS apps are available for FREE! This month I’ll list some of my personal favorites. First up, shopping apps, and I don’t mean store shopping, I mean looking for someone else’s used junk shop-ping. For Craigslist, I like Craigslist+ on the iPhone (for free) and Craigslist++ on the iPad (99 cents). These allow you to search across multiple Craigslist areas and save common searches. Yard Sale Mapper is another good one that creates a map of garage sales near you. Then there’s the ebay app, which is free and takes advantage of the extra screen space on the iPad and provides you with notifications when some-thing you are watching is about to end. Other fun free apps include Flipboard, which organizes web con-tent into a nice magazine, and Shut-terfly, which allows you to view or upload pictures to photo pages like the club site. The best things can be free!

Simple Tips .com button long press for .org, .edu, etc. : This is another new one that we recently discovered, and it works on both iPhone and iPad. When you are entering a web address, the key-board will have a .com button. If you keep your finger pressed on the button, options will come up for .net, .edu, .org, and others that you can then select. This makes it even quicker to get to the club site! Also, if you are in a field that uses the regular keyboard, pressing and holding the . button brings up options for .com and the others in a menu. Orient the map the direction you’re moving: Just like the GPS units we use in the buggies, the iOS map app has the option to orient the map based on the direction you are heading. Tap the Location button in Maps twice to orient the map based on the direction you are heading. Remember that just like the little GPSs it needs recent motion to know which way is which. Attach multiple items to a message: Shirley has this one figured out, and now the rest of us can too. If you want to attach something (usually photos) to an existing e-mail, do it by copying the multiple images and pasting them into the e-mail. To select multiple photos, go to your Camera Roll and click the arrow on the top right when you are on the screen with multiple photos. Then select the pictures you want (a check will be shown on each one) and click Copy. Then you can go to your e-mail message, tap the text, and select Paste to add the images as attachments to your e-mail.