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1 Next up, Coral Pink! The annual summer trek to Utah is now just two weeks away. Dean Carver is doing great recovering from his broken hip, and was at the shop on Tuesday night within a few weeks. Now he is up on crutches, and should be ready for the dunes before long. Dave and Leona are recovering from their adventure at Dumont. Leona say she is looking forward to getting back in a car. Dave already has new seat belts, and has replaced the bent shock shaft which was the only major part broken on the car. Dave also has a new ride to get to the dunes, check out the pictures on page 3. Walt took the RZR out to play at Johnson Valley to get a sand fix before Coral Pink. Some people just can’t stay out of the sand for long. See the pics on page 2. It is almost July, which means the weather is heating up, the river toys are coming out, and we’re getting ready for Coral Pink! We don’t have any new trips to report on this month, so the newsletter might be a little short, but we should be able to make up for it over the next couple of months with post-Coral Pink trip info. In the mean time though, check out some pics of what members have been up to as we move in to summertime.

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In this edition of The Rooster, we look forward to Coral Pink and take a look at various events that members are up to as the summer begins.

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♦ Next up, Coral Pink! The annual summer trek to Utah is now just two weeks away.

♦ Dean Carver is doing great recovering from his broken hip, and was at the shop on Tuesday night within a few weeks. Now he is up on crutches, and should be ready for the dunes before long.

♦ Dave and Leona are recovering from their adventure at Dumont. Leona say she is looking forward to getting back in a car. Dave already has new seat belts, and has replaced the bent shock shaft which was the only major part broken

on the car. Dave also has a new ride to get to the dunes, check out the pictures on page 3.

♦ Walt took the RZR out to play at Johnson Valley to get a sand fix before Coral Pink. Some people just can’t stay out of the sand for long. See the pics on page 2.

It is almost July, which means the weather is heating up, the river toys are coming out, and we’re getting ready for Coral Pink! We don’t have any new trips to report on this month, so the newsletter might be a little short, but we should be able to make up for it over the next couple of months with post-Coral Pink trip info. In the mean time though, check out some pics of what members have been up to as we move in to summertime.

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July 5(or earlier)-7th: Pre-Coral Pink time in

Mesquite NV at the Casablanca.

July 7th-16th: Coral Pink! We will be at

the Coral Pink Sand Dunes Utah

State Park from Thursday

through the following Saturday.

July 16th: Night at the Casablanca

in Mesquite on the way home.

August 19th-21st: Annual river trip to visit

the Fords in Lake Havasu.

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I went out to explore Johnson Valley today with some friends. Had a great time, riding all day, on trails that go on forever. It's a big place. I found some sand dunes too, here are a couple of pics. Cya, Walt

Another Retired Member By the time this is published, the club will have another retired member. Jim Kastle’s last day of work is Friday, June 17th. As many prior retirees in the club have noted, now he’ll really be busy. John Cole made the observation that he’s really gotta get some younger friends, since going to work is depressing when all your bud-dies don’t have to...

The Hagens Are Graduates Jeremy and Karissa Hagen, who are literally life long members of Inland Empire Offroad, just graduated from High School! While this

makes the rest of us feel a little old, (O.K, really old for some of us), it means that the Hagen twins are off to college. Hopefully we’ll still see them in the dunes, since we need someone to bring down the average age of the group. Con-gratulations Jeremy and Karissa!

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Those of you who have been around the club for a while will remember Dave Medlin’s big raised Dually as an institution in the club. Back in the day, Dave and Mario had the two biggest trucks around, and they would pull club members and others out of the sand on the flats (yes, it was back when we used to camp on the flats).

Well, after experiencing recurring tire trouble with the big tires that were a little too wide for the narrow Dually rims, after the Dumont trip Dave found a new toy. It is a nice Duramax 4x4, and yes, it has a little bit of lift. Of course, compared to the dually, most any lift is little, but the new truck should make a great daily driver for Dave and allow him to haul the trailer to the dunes more easily, so hopefully he’ll be out there more of-ten. Congratulations Dave.

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This month, in the spirit of getting ready for Coral Pink, we’ll provide snippets of newsletter articles covering past Coral Pink tips and leave it up to you to guess the year of each trip. We will print the answers in next month’s newsletter.

Trip #1:

Friday: We went for a morning ride and Don’s trans broke at the end of the lower dunes. We came back for towing hubs and Doug towed him back to camp. Kris, Walt, and us went for a second ride and found lakes in the upper dunes. We finished installing Don’s trans that evening.

Saturday: On the morning ride with everyone we went back to the large lake in the upper dunes. Shirley walked/waded out to the middle in nearly waist deep water.

Trip #2:

It was 93 degrees when we left town, and down to 53 by the time we got to camp. It was also raining quite hard, and there were lots of places where water had washed across the road. The meadow was full of water, and upon returning t camp we found that it had hailed, and quite a river had flowed through camp. Thanks to those who were in camp, the car seats were covered and everything we left out in the rain had been put away. We also saw that behind camp the road had completely washed over. A Semi truck carrying a scraper got stuck in the wash, so the Rangers used their Ku-bota tractor to make a ramp to unload the scraper to help clear the road.

Trip #3:

We eventually arrived at the campground and registered for three sites very close together. The area is beauti-ful with cypress and pine trees all over the campground, some right next to the campground road. Remember Robert’s 42 foot Weekend Warrior? It took nearly an hour; unhitching and rehitching, while blocking the campground road; with Bill, P.J., the campground host, several passerby, and myself all telling Robert differ-ent things to get the trailer into it’s spot. The campground host and the ranger reminded us not to park off the pavement and to keep the dogs on a leash.

Trip #4:

We had a nice un-eventful drive and went up via the Cane Beds dirt road, which shortens the trip by over 40 miles. We got to the campground and began the process of unpacking, which included getting Shirley’s Ranger out of the front of Walt’s trailer, a process that was complicated by the fact they had to pull the wheels off in order to make it short enough to fit in. The Tranthams had arrived at the park from Colorado earlier in the day, and were looking forward to their first Coral Pink trip.

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Two child’s helmets for sale: Both were purchased at Chaparral, 3 years ago. Both are full face with visors. Exterior is in good shape, minor scratches. Inside is in per-fect shape, foam intact, no tears. Black one is a child Small and the Yellow one is a child Medium. $50 each Contact Pete Hagen at: (760) 451-0845

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This month we’d like to thank Walt for contributing content, and all of you for reading and putting up with a newsletter that I pretty much scraped together from e-mail, Facebook, and the web. If you have something more interesting, and I bet many of you do, please feel free to send it in. As you can tell by the content I gath-ered, we’re really looking forward to Coral Pink now. We’ll be on our way to Utah after just a few more days of work, and I can’t wait! Then there’s the Havasu trip coming up soon after, so make your plans now. -PJ, Melissa and of course Allison

Thinking about Dave’s accident at Dumont has given all of us a chance to look back and see what we did well, and what we would

do differently the next time we have an emergency issue to deal with. Probably the most interesting tool in looking back over what happened is the video that Steve Tharp had running from his car during that ride. Watching it, you can see an exact timeline from the point where Steve crossed the same razorback ahead of Dave to circling back because one of the cars behind him had a problem. You can actually see Dave’s car rolling to a stop, and us hopping out to help. The amazing part of it for those of us who were there is how short of an amount of time it all happened in. What felt like minutes of waiting and trying to find first aid kits or anything to help with the bleeding turns out to have all take place in under a minute. Check out the video for yourself at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoKxvFL9E1U From then, it wasn’t long until Jim and Bryan were on their way to camp to get a truck, and soon after we had Leona in Steve Tharp’s car and were headed that way to meet them. The radios worked well since we were able to talk to each other and the truck, and despite a little mix-up over which Steve Bryan was looking for we got Leona on the way to Baker fairly quickly. We are going to add some items to our first aid kit, and we’ll make sure we know what is in there and we’ll keep it somewhere we can get to it quickly. With a real injury, it is surprising how small a regular first aid kit

can seem. We found that they make large absorbent gauze pads, at least 4 in. x 4 in. that aren’t in many small first aid kits but would be nice to have, and we’ll have some in the car for the next trip. We’ll also make sure to have a whole roll of medical tape. We ended up using electrical tape, but it is kinda stretchy, and after a few years in my toolbox it was far from sterile. They also have Emergency pressure dressings, which have a large absorbent pad pre attached to a gauze roll, so there’s one item to quickly grab and use. We just want to make sure that we have plenty of materials to continue to add to a wound dressing, because no matter what we don’t want to be removing any bandage material in the field, we just need to be able to add more to it to stop the bleeding.

Overall, it is great to ride with a group, and in an emergency we will all come together and help out, but I will feel bet-ter equipped to help more quickly if we add a few more things to a first aid kit in the car that we can get to quickly and are more familiar with. -P.J.

Mid-engine Mega Sand Trans For Sale $3,750.00 Three speed. New ring and pinion, and main shaft, 3rd & 4th by “Wright Gear Box”. 930 CV flanges 4.43 Ring and pinion, 2.23 1st, 1.67 3rd, 1.22 4th Contact: Walt Fisher 909-641-3045 [email protected]