little sahara trip

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This past week we made a 15 hour trip down to the little sahara sand dunes in oklahoma. This was our first trip to sand dunes and definately wont be our last. Besides a few mechanical things with my brothers 4 wheeler, the trip was an overall blast. Here's a few pictures.

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its no glamis, but the dunes are really a lot bigger than they seem in the pictures

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here's my brother

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there were a lot of wide open places where you could drag race on the south side

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little jump that we found.

[trx400EXtreme]

cool pics. we go down there at least once a year. it never gets old. that pretty cool there was snow on the sand. i've never been when there was. where did you guys stay?

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me jumping again.

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sunset from the top of a small dune. and we stayed at the trails inn. it was alright because we stayed in the new section and theres direct access to the dunes.

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heres a shot of some other groups. the snow actually helped, seeing as we didnt have paddles. the sand was damp enough so that we didnt have any traction problems.

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small water crossing that my brother and i got stuck in the next day.. the water was over our back tires and we had to get in to pull the quads out.. :o

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heres another small jump we found.

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the dark spot was a really steep and tall bowl. that was fun

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it started drying out on sunday

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and it really dried out by monday. that made it a little harder to get around with knobbies.

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from the top of one of the tallest dunes.

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butt shot of my brothers quad

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my brother will posting the rest when he gets back to school. almost 100 more pics and some videos.

[my88r]

looked fun!!! i might need to make a trip down there.:macho

[Pipeless416]

that was a great trip and it makes me wish we had dunes worth going to that were closer. i think we'll be trying silver lake sometime in the future because its only like 7 or 8 hours. little sahara just has so much variety in terrain. i think we're dune addicts now..:p

[quadwanter]

i really want to go there! How big are the dunes/hills? Were there a lot of people there?

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We made our first trip last year. Little sahara is really nice. I hope to start making it an anual trip.

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Originally posted by quadwanter
i really want to go there! How big are the dunes/hills? Were there a lot of people there?

i think the tallest dunes are about 80 feet. not huge compared to glamis and all the other western sand dunes, but enough to keep you happy for a while. and as far as the amount of people, the weather conditions werent exactly ideal since we went in december lol. there were actually quite a few more than i expected on new years even though. im just glad it wasnt packed. im guessing that place could get pretty dangerous.

[tar]

looks like you guys had fun..yea it gets really busy on breaks from school and Sandjam,Sandfest and Snakehunt..we head up there about 10x a year

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Just don't go down on Labor Day or Memorial Day weekends. It's crazy, lol.

The area isn't huge. It's only about what 2 square miles? But it is a great area, and the local town does a great job of supporting the riding area. It's a major part of the towns income.

Wynoka, OK. Go to google maps, and head south from the town. You'll see the area on the satelite map.

It's bigger than it looks on the map.

We usually go down there 2-3 times a year.

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Originally posted by tar
looks like you guys had fun..yea it gets really busy on breaks from school and Sandjam,Sandfest and Snakehunt..we head up there about 10x a year snakehunt is NUTS. we went went one year during it. there wasn't one dune that hadn't been touched.

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heres a little video i made. theres some short video clips taken with our crappy camera, so the color is basically non-existant. it was also my first time using windows movie maker and i did it pretty quickly.. so dont make fun of it too much. :)

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[Ghost-Rider]

Nice pics and great video, looks like it was fun !

[zdowell]

how was it without sand tires me and some friends are going there in may and was debating if i should buy sand tires or not

thanks

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for the first few days it was not a problem at all since it snowed and the sand was a little wet. on the last day it started to dry out and it was much harder to get around. id recommend paddles for the time of year you'll be going, unless you want massive roost shots ;)

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I have been there when the sand is dry. It's still fun without paddles but I would recomend them. You can rent them at LS powersports. I think it's $50 for the day.

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dang.. thats kinda expensive. heres another shot that i liked.

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i wish this picture came out better. he's crazy :p

[zukirules]

Looks like a fun time. I love the dunes in the summer, don't know about winter. Glad you had fun. I think we're goin this summer to little sahara.

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this is one of my favorites.

I think we are gonna go back in Oct. It'a about 800 miles for us.

[cbrooks118]

Late sept-early nov and late feb-early may are prime time for LS. Not to hot duringthe day, not too cold at night. I spend many of weekends there. I prefer to stay away during summer because of the riduclous heat, especially if there is no wind.