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WYO330EXRIDA
08-15-2002, 02:53 PM
I will be going for my first time so I would like to meet some people that will be there labor day weekend I can ride with a little. (Got to keep the Girlfriend satisfied also)

Str8Wicked
08-16-2002, 10:09 AM
Your gonna cook....... way too hot... Make sure you take plenty of water and an air conditioned RV.

Dune Surfer
08-19-2002, 09:51 PM
Some friends and I are going that friday night to ride at night and early morning. We will be at the end of gecko road.If you like you can ride with us. I will be riding my yellow 400ex witha factory FX graphics and trailtech lights. look us up my name is tony. Glamis is HUGE be carefull about riding alone it is dangerous. Carry lots of water if you breakdown you could die. Really. Two people already died this summer when their dune buggy broke down, and they where only three miles from camp!!. I am not trying to scare you but it is easy to get lost there and the dunes are Huge. Try to hook up with another group. Good luck, If you need any other info let me know.

Big - D Racing
08-22-2002, 08:06 PM
You guys are all insane, I won't go to Glamis untill halloween weekend and even then it can still get in the low 90's. In sept., especially early sept. expect temp. to be in the low 100's maybe if your lucky high 90's. In the night it's like 80. Have fun though.

own2424
08-22-2002, 08:20 PM
Originally posted by Big - D Racing
You guys are all insane, I won't go to Glamis untill halloween weekend and even then it can still get in the low 90's. In sept., especially early sept. expect temp. to be in the low 100's maybe if your lucky high 90's. In the night it's like 80. Have fun though.


How do you think I felt when I went to Glamis/Buttercup through all of JULY this summer! The temperatures had to be close to 120 during the afternoon...CRAZY! But, I had so much fun...so heat didnt matter to me.....:D

Big - D Racing
08-22-2002, 08:30 PM
If you don't get to go often, it is worth a summer trip, I'm one hour 30 mins. away from Glamis and have been there hundreds of times. So I wait untill the temp. falls just like most people who live out here.
P.S. Butter Cup is about 30 mins. away from Glamis. I just didn't know if you knew that or not because you wrote "Glamis/Buttercup" like it is the same desert. I'm not trying to be rude.

own2424
08-22-2002, 08:44 PM
Yea, sorry I didnt make that clear. Yea, I rode at Buttercup for about 23 days since it is only 30 minutes away fromt Yuma, AZ where I stayed. I went to Glamis for a couple days, and that was about a lil more than a one hour drive from Yuma...Ill Be back during DECEMBER...i wanna see what the CRAZE during the season really is!

Glamis400ex
08-22-2002, 08:58 PM
own2424,

Oh man, if you come out at Thanksgiving, you will know what it's like to be in the center of madness. It sure is fun tho.:D

Hey Big D racing, what part of Diego you from? I'm in Escondido.

Later

Glamis

own2424
08-22-2002, 09:22 PM
Glamis400ex....

Yes, I camped and rode with some cool poeple I met online. They showed me around the WHOLE entire place. They told me ALL about what goes on during Thanksgiving...but just one thing baffled my mind: The fact that there is over 200,000 poeple there!!!!!!!!! I just cant imagine that many poeple, HECK thats like 8 times the size of my town! Maybe there will be a good amount of poeple when I come down there during Christmas and New Years...Maybe ill see some of you guys down ther...
:D

Glamis400ex
08-22-2002, 09:36 PM
200,000 is a litte over exaggerated. 40,000 is probably a little close to truth.

Xmas/New Years is very popular, you'll have alot of fun, just watch out for everyone else. Lots of people out there really have no sense about them and could care less about you. Be alert at all times.

Glamis

Big - D Racing
08-22-2002, 09:41 PM
200,000 is for real! Probably more. It is huge an it crowded everywhere on the big weekends. You go to one of the hills or drags, and you'll have a heart attack seeing these $500,000 dune buggies and $60,000 quads. I'm in Santee,Ca

own2424
08-22-2002, 09:47 PM
Originally posted by Big - D Racing
200,000 is for real! Probably more. It is huge an it crowded everywhere on the big weekends. You go to one of the hills or drags, and you'll have a heart attack seeing these $500,000 dune buggies and $60,000 quads. I'm in Santee,Ca

Yea, I read in the Yuma newspaper that there was 200,000+ poeple at Thanksgiving 2001. Yea, when I come back, Im taking like 5 rolls of film to take pics. I saw a couple sweet ***** drag banshees at Glamis when they had the drag races this summer.

Glamis400ex
08-22-2002, 09:51 PM
Big D and own2424,

I'm not a long time duner by any means, only like 3 years, but I was always told 40,000-50,000 was about right for the big weekends. My bad for wrong info.

Glamis

own2424
08-22-2002, 09:54 PM
Glamis400ex...

Im just a BEGINNER at this! Im just relaying the information that i READ in a newspaper and what was told to me by fellow duners. I still dont know alot of crap that goes on in the dunes, since Ive never been there during the "SEASON". Hopefully, Ill find out what its all about when I come back.

Big - D Racing
08-22-2002, 10:15 PM
Here's the bottom of oldsmobile one of 3 major hills at glamis

Dune Surfer
08-22-2002, 11:20 PM
Were not insane, just crazy. Kidding, we are going to ride at night. We ride nights during the season to. there is nothing like being out there on a full moon in the dunes.

400thumper
08-24-2002, 07:04 AM
big d racing i grew up in san diego went to glamis for years never made it in 1 hour and 30 min damm dude your flyin .lived in mira mesa for 23 years now in phoenix .we do the night runs all the time didn't go this year had alot of things go wrong i think we are going out labor day ..if you never rode with no one there and virgin dunes your missing out your right you do need a/c in the rv but it's fun ..later dave