2011 US RaptorSource tour

[Colorado700R]

dats what I'm talking about .....look at all that area to drown Troy in if he gets loopy

[Spider/Paleface513]

START AT SILVERLAKE HEAD SOUTH FROM THERE TO ATTICA BADLANDS NICE PLACE THEN EAST TO HATFEILD MC COY SOUTH TO FLORIDA AND CROOM THEN 75 TO 24 TO 40 TO LITTLE SAHARA OKI ON WAY WEST HIT UP SOMETHING NEAR FLAG STAFF IN AZ ITS OFF 40 THEN DROP DOWN 17 TO PHNX AND I 10 TO CALI HIT GLAMIS OR SOME THEM OTHER ONES THEN TAKE THE 99 NORTH TO IT HITS 5 AGAIN TO OREGON AND YOUR TWO WEEKS ARE OVER NOW NEED THREE 4 DAYS OF DRIVING TO GET BACK EAST OR A 5 HR FLIGHT AND SHIP YOUR QUAD 

[bustedplastic]

What will this madness cost?  I have tons of vacation, so that's not the issue, would just need to know how many pennies to save up for a trip of this magnitude!

[Colorado700R]

that'll depend on how many sites you plan to join the madness on. I doubt if many can afford the entire trip. (I know we won't), but I'm planning on budgeting 3500 and see how far that can take us.

Aaron

[Gunz]

I figured on having about $2g's for it. I will try my best to ride it out from beginning to end. Just depends on where we go. I like the idea of starting in Pennsylvania at McCoys and ending in Oregon.

[Peelz]

What will this madness cost?  I have tons of vacation, so that's not the issue, would just need to know how many pennies to save up for a trip of this magnitude!

more than I have.   Looks like one or two dune trips at the most next year. I'd like to meet you guys at one of the rally locations though.

[disco]

Probably the only affordable way to do this is carpool as much as possible and split the bill. 

Some guys talk about their diesels pulling gross weights at 80mph and getting 20 mph uphill with the a/c blowing.  Mine is not one of those.

[Gunz]

Thats the plan. Im hoping to rent an RV and pull my enclosed. RV is about $1000/week, but if u divide that between 5-6 guys thats $200/week cheaper then a motel bill for a week.

http://www.cruiseamerica.com/rent/?gclid=COba-daQ650CFSANDQodbQvMPg

I will pick up guys along the way to the first location and be able to hold 5-6 quads.

[bustedplastic]

Probably the only affordable way to do this is carpool as much as possible and split the bill. 

Some guys talk about their diesels pulling gross weights at 80mph and getting 20 mph uphill with the a/c blowing.  Mine is not one of those.

My s10 barely gets that pulling two quads on an aluminum flatbed!

[Peelz]

My nissan frontier 2.4 liter 4cyl gets 7 f**King mpg pulling two quads on a single axle 6x10 trailer. and reaaaaaaaaaalllllyyy slowly too.

[preddy08]

Probably the only affordable way to do this is carpool as much as possible and split the bill. 

Some guys talk about their diesels pulling gross weights at 80mph and getting 20 mph uphill with the a/c blowing.  Mine is not one of those.

Dont feel bad Disco. I have one of those diesels that are suppose to get 20MPG pulling 9 billion pounds in the snow, up hill both ways. What do ya know, I get 9-11MPG pulling anything big

[disco]

Bumpity bump!

Anybody ready to lock down some dates for this?  Assuming I can get the time off, I think what I may do is skip the higher elevation riding since I'm carb'ed and don't feel like changing jets constantly and just plan on being a designated driver in and out of that location. 

Hoping to get some new suspension by then also.

[ordunner]

Not sure I could make all of this trip but if it had most or part of this list I would sure do what I could to make it all.

This would be my list:

Coral Pink
Little Sahara
St. Anthony
Moses Lake camp over for 1 night intransit to
Christmas Valley Dunes
Oregon Dunes
Dumont Dunes
Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area
Amargosa Dunes
Sand Mountain

Not sure how much time you would need but this would be one hell of a loop.

[Gunz]

I definitely want to ride the dunes in Oregon

[Segkast]

I definitely want to ride the dunes in Oregon

For sure. Good chance a good portion of these dunes will be CLOSED (like all the trails, treeshots, you know- the cool shit!?) in the next year or so. Get here quick !!! They're working on legislation right now - there's a workgroup looking at a lot of options, and most the people in this group are NOT Pro-ORV people...