I dont care what you take a pic of, (as long as it meets the rules), but just post some good pics of stuff in the south dunes, weither it be you jumping your buggy, quad, bike, 3 wheeler, golf cart, rc car, or motorhome. Bring it on. Give us something to look at when its too hot to dune.

I will start.....

I tried to get one of those as well. Not as good as yours. Great shot. Nothing better than getting up early while it is quiet with a hot cup of coffee with baileys and watching the sun come up! Doesn't get any better!!!



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Oh...I like this thread...I can ho it up good here

Gordon's Drags






Hi Jumper trying to live up to it's name at Buttercup:






Buttercup Valley from the top of comp:






Lonely camp at Buttercup:


And for now I'll close with a shot of my daily driver in the dunes:

Ahhh, why not a few more.

Drug bust at Buttercup:




YumaDuners members giving a Marine and his wife their first taste of the dunes:


Buttercup Valley:




Summer sunset at Buttercup (who says it gets too hot!)


Dune Sunflowers at Buttercup:


Ripster in the air at Buttercup:


More Buttercup sand....near the second valley:


Matt and one of his smaller campfires at Gordons:


Me....roasting marshmallows on that same fire:




And I'll close this one out with a fairly recent shot of the second valley at Buttercup:

Our last trip to buttercup:

My dad


Me on my old blaster


Before my motor blew up


throwinrox and his son

Nova keeping out of the sun at Gordon's over President's Day.



Phoenix taking a rest after playing frisbee at Gordon's over President's Day.



Brownie taking a rest after chasing Phoenix who was chasing the frisbee at Gordon's over President's Day.

Sunset last Easter, looking North from the flats below Plank Road.

The drags at Gordon's, New Years.............

A friend's first, and last, attempt at jumping his old school buggy. Notice the white knuckels. Over 5' off the ground, with maybe 4 inches of travel.
South set of dunes at Buttercup.

Given the rainy nature of this year
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this was the first weekend the snake car was in the dunes, Oct 16th 2004

same weekend, James (RIPSTER) got his new car.

thats him getting strapped in for his first ride.

awsesome pictures, I'll get some tomorrow and tuesday when I'm at buttercup to share

That Avatar scares me who is the Duff

Was testing my new camera yesterday and today so here are some shots of Buttercup from this weekend:

First a few my Amy took of me giving her sister a ride in the dunes. (her sister was visiting from Kentucky and had never even seen dunes before - she LOVED her ride!)













Unfortunatly the light was going away quick and I forgot to show Amy how to adjust the sensitivity on the new camera before going for the ride...so she had a hard time getting decent exposures and fast enough shutter speeds for sharp images.

Today I manned the camera and we had plenty of light. But we were just making a quick stop at the plank road...which is so overgrown with wildflowers right now you can't hardly even see it!













Can't wait to make a full trip with the new camera now! Finally a digital SLR that will use all my old film lenses! Woo Hoo! Super high resolution and my 300mm lens works like a 450mm. May have to head out to the Gordon's drags next weekend and see if I can spot anyone I know to get some good action shots

This trailer was at Gordon's Well after Christmas. No other vehicles nearby.

Hey, that's part of our camp! That our friend Eric's trailer. At the time he worked at ORBS and would sometimes get called back to do an emergency buggy repair so he'd have to come back and get his trailer after everyone else had left.

To keep with the theme of the thread here's a shot of it with part of the rest of camp over T-day. He's almost always the first one out there and last one to leave:

Man, I remember seeing your bomb a long time ago on atv connection. It was before I bought my yfz, and I almost bought a bomb because of yours. What did you do with it? Also did it have the woods stage 3 kit in it?

Yep, I used to hang out over there quite a bit. Yes it has the stage 3 kit and yes I still have it. It's been sitting for a while becuase of the rail. Infact last trip out it sounded a little weird so I sent it into the shop to have it looked at. When it comes out it will be for sale.....cheap.

#1 - You guys must have a killer fire.

#2 - That trailer sat for several days with no activity. We figured it was abandoned.

OK, here's one for ya:

We ALWAYS have a nice warm fire See my posts above for some of the fire that wood went into - notice how red I am despite the 7' long marshmallow stick



Knowing Eric he probably was too tired to go pick it up for a few days. When he was at ORBS it wasn't uncommon for him to work until 2 or 3 AM to get someones buggy repaired so they wouldn't miss the rest of their vacation. Now he's working at a boat shop and more regular hours so he'll probably be better about retrieving his trailer quickly. The funny thing is - it's been broken into several times while in storage - but never when he leaves it behind for a few extra days.

Ok....guess I need to add a few more south dunes photos now!

Three blue Pintos, a Toyota...and the dune Burban!


Guess which one has the aluminum front beam:


I give madweazles cousin(?) his first buggy ride:


Me coming up comp at Buttercup:

Breakfast bowls rock

Those breakfast bowls are hangover killers. Love those.

I think anyone who posts in the Picture thread without adding at least one picture should have to buy breakfast bowls for everyone who does include pictures

And to make sure I'm not buying...here's some shots from Patton a few years back of something you never want to see:







But to end the post on a happier thought here's something I always love seeing in the dunes:

The last time the dunes were beautiful and nearly empty...... Easter '04

The crew on Butercup's version of Comp and looking out into the valley.

Hey Jason, what happened to the guy on the quad? ^^^

Here's a link to when I first posted those photos:
http://www.americansandassociation.org/php...opic.php?t=8939

But basically it was an inexperienced woman on the quad who ended up sueing the rail driver. I have no clue how it turned out and only know there was a lawsuit because she wanted me to testify on her behalf - which I refused because having seen it happen I basically felt they were both somewhat at fault and should have both been paying better attention to their surroundings.

The guy in the rail had been doing the same jump over and over for at least 15 minutes. But he didn't have a spotter, his child was barely strapped in (you could see him coming out of the seat on the jumps), the womans whip WAS visible even though she was behind a rise as I was also on the other side of the rise and clearly saw the whip, and the way he was driving it sure looked like he was pretty new to driving in the sand.

The woman on the other hand was not paying attention to her surroundings (the guy HAD been following the same path for at least 15 minutes), there was no crowd so she could have easily crossed on top of the rise or on the other side where everyone else did making her visible to the crowd and letting her see on-coming traffic at the base of the hill.

Basically they were both acting like they had never been out there before and both made mistakes. Unfortunatly the quad did little to protect her while the rail absorbed the dammage for the guy driving.

She was OK but we did get her to the paramedics to be checked out. Nothing was broken thankfully other than machinery which is easily repairable.

Quite a bit more to the story...but it's easier told in person than on a website as there are a lot of little details it would take a long time to type out.

Ok...now for more photos so I don't have to buy the breakfast bowls!




Plank Road.....Summer of 1999:


Plank Road.....Last weekend:


What a difference a little rain makes!

Speaking of rain...how about a little lightening storm at Buttercup:

Gordon's, all from gordon's








showin the love





go big at the drags



kenny's car at the drags



KG,QG, , and justin from revenge at the drags





evening ride

I want to know what camera you bought that lets you use your old SLR lenses.??? And are any of the pics from it on here? Which ones, if so.

I used to shoot Minoltas for film (Still have 4 film bodies in fact) and the last digital SLR Minolta released was about 6 years ago and is WAY out of date. They've been lagging on getting a good high quality DSLR out to the market - but as usual (IMHO) when they finally did they blew everyone else away. The 7D is an outstanding camera and is the most "film feeling" DSLR I've used (I haven't used the Canons, but I don't like Canon in general. I've used several Nikons and they're nice cameras...but even in the film days I just never liked the ergonomics of Nikon bodies.)

If you have Canon lenses (and like Canon cameras - I don't they all just feel too flimsy to me. But my GF loves them) then the D60 is a great option. Uses all the standard Canon lenses and is 8MP.

If you have Nikon lenses they offer a number of great DSLR's such as the D70 which is (like the Minolta) only 6MP but (again like the Minolta) blazingly fast.

The real nice thing about the Minolta 7D - aside from the great ergonomics and controls, the beautiful color and sharpness it's capable of, and of course Minoltas legendary autofocus technology...is that it has anti-shake technology built into the body. Nikon and Canon only build it into their lenses so you have to pay a premium per-lens to get anti-shake. With the Minolta it's magically available on all of your lenses!

I haven't gotten to take many dune shots with it yet. The ones of my GF's sister in my rail and the flower at the plank road above were taken with it. Those are the only shots I've taken so far that qualify for this thread (but if you go to YumaDuners.com and check out the Galleries in my gallery on the last page the two albums of "Stacy's visit" were all shot with the 7D. Only low rez versions are up there right now though. Gallery 1 and Gallery 2)

Here's a quick full-size (well, more than full-size) sample from the 7D. It's not quite the south dunes but it is just east of Ogilby road and an easy drive from the Ogilby campground so I guess it kind of qualifies:



Click on it for the fullsize version. But be warned, it's a 21megapixel image! This is 6 images from the 7D stitched together. The AEL/AF locks on the 7D were so good I didn't even have to do any cleaning of the seams after stitching like I usually do. And I was able to take all 6 images in less time than it took to shoot one image with my old Nikon 4500!

Now...for some more south dunes images!

A few of Go Big at the Gordon's drags:




Justin in the first Sidewinder prototype the first time he had it out at Gordons:


Few other cars at the Gordon's drags:








(For the record those drag photos were shot with a Nikon D1 DSLR and a 600mm lens! I was actually shooting from near the end of the drags. Unfortunatly the D1 had an issue with it's CCD and wasn't focusing properly so I didn't get many usable photos that trip.)

One of my favorite pics...not photchoped

Mid week, we took the kids out to the "soft sand" to let them run wild and play, so here are some pics form that....BTW, they had a blast! Then I jumped on my neices quad and that thing struggle to haul my fat ass around.

this was my last buggy, a few weeks before I sold it, we were taking pics of it to put in the trader. Think I sold it late '02 or early '03, maybe it was late '03, I dunno, just shows how much I drove it, I know I had it for a year or so, but only drove it a handful of times, I just didnt have any faith in it.

This was jumping over the start of the drags at Gordons, you can see by the lack of people it was a slow weekend.

Buttercup Comp April 1982


1977 & 2003


2003


2004




OK, this is just a few miles east of the dunes. My favorite camping spot.

sorry these are alittle big... but hey they are of some sand!

a small group of my crew out for this weekend stoppin to BS.


a friend of mine gettin strapped in the Kaos buggy... she looks alittle excited.


i dont know his name but he was in our group and we found a good jump.


end of last season.... knew the guy on the yellow suzuki and the bike on the right of him.

Hook a Yuma brother up with the 411 on the breakfast bowls. That thing looks good.

BTW, I've just switched over to a buggy from the quad. You'll see me out there almost every weekend, (this one included) in an older sandlimo with aluminum front beam. Turbo VW with a tan in front to turquise in the rear fade.

I recognize quite a few of the cars in the pics posted here, but I try not to venture to Gordons Well unless I have no other choice.


Hit me up, or if you see me out, flag me down!


As a matter of fact I rolled right in front of you jhitesma, while you and another buggy were stopped near the entrance to Buttercup near the concession trailers. I recognize this car..... Very beautiful.....

Thanks for the compliments on the Manx...not sure when you would have seen it at Buttercup recently though....last time I had it out was Thanksgiving and I was actually letting some friends drive it so you may have seen them.

The breakfast bowls are at Pair-A-Dice - tasty stuff...but we don't go in there very much anymore because of the owners and the long waits. We've been chowing on the breakfast burritos at the vendors at Buttercup this year - darn tasty and a LOT quicker. (In fact over Tday we stopped at PAD to get breakfast but the line was out the door and into the parking lot. Instead we drove over to Buttercup and ate at the vendors. When we got back we stopped at PAD to meet some friends and saw the people who were in line in front of us still waiting for their food!)

I'd like to make it out this weekend...but I wanted to make it out last weekend too and that didn't happen. So who knows. Don't be looking fo the Manx though I mainly just drive it around town. In the dunes I'm usually in my rail:



That's mine on the left and my friend Rick's on the right (at buttercup taking the biologists out to study the PMV and help prove it's not endangered!).

The other easy way to spot us is my Friend Matt is usually along and his car is pretty unique, here he is on the top of Patton:



And here's a more recent shot of him coming up comp at Buttercup now that he has side panels and a wing:



Oh and BTW - Congrats on being the 100th person to join the YumaDuners site! Maybe we should do an impromptu BBQ at Buttercup this weekend to celebrate the centennial membership mark!

Thanks for the warm reception.

I guess is wasn't your Manx then, but it sure looked alot like it!

Have you seen it lately?

I'll keep an eye out for you guys next time I'm out there. (This weekend)
I have a 15yr old nephew who is flying from Cleveland (where I grew up too), into Phoenix tomorrow (Friday). It will be his first trip to the West/SW area, and I'm sure the dunes will blow his mind, as it did mine the first time I layed eyes on them. I've been in Yuma now for 5 years, and in the dunes for 4 straight seasons but up until now it has always been on the quads.
Just got the rail, and chomping at the bit to get it out every weekend...
I can't really camp Saturday night because of the holiday on Sunday, but feel free to wave me down if you spot me out there on Sat.

And I'm always up for a good party!

Also, if there is anything I can do for our hobby, or to assist the club, let me know.


-Chad.

Hey Crowdog, when to took pictures of my friends trailer did you see if the other side had a bunch of paint ball splats on it? Apparently someone decided to use it for target practice over New Years and he wasn't very happy when he got a chance to retrieve it

But the real reason for this post....some photos of Gordon's drags from today:




These two were easy to shoot...but only because the guy was doing massive wheelies less than 10 feet from the crowd Thankfully he only made the one pass.





I got to meet KMDuner and then got a few shots of him:





There was a Monster Manx putting on a nice show:






More later...having server issues and dinner is ready

That kinda looks like Daytona's monster manx.....

You know what he looks like? Here's a close-up of the driver:

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...I'm getting antsy waiting for the rest of my group...I wanted to be out there already by now!

I've only met him once, and yeah that kinda looks like him. But don't all those young punk ass kids with their hats backwards and tatoo's and stuff all look the same?

Me at Patton

Troy at Patton