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eDUBz
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May 30, 2018

Memorial weekend trip

This Memorial weekend we setup camp at Cuddeback Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert.

Road trip pic


Our view



Camp setup with Mpoulsen aka Hotel California.

We made our first run up RM34 looking for the old military landing strip. By the way the old military land strip and bomb test site is now closed land because of a group who vandalized it, bragging about how they did the worlds largest illegal graffiti. RM34 was dead ended about 15 miles east. so we head back west down RM 34 to RM50 and came across this old Ranch of some sort.





Did some more exploring and came across this cool piece


Day one (Saturday) was a success, it was just exploritory riding getting familiar with area and navigating it through the friends of Jawbone map.




Day two (Sunday) we figured out a route to ride out to Husky Monument.


Made it, first time here. The ride wasn’t too bad it
Looks further on the map then the actual ride. Lots of creative memorials.







We head south to the F-22 Crash site



Again first time here - we ate lunch and hung out for a bit.



From here we headed north back to camp for a break. Michale decides to do
Some more exploring North of camp and maps out route for us to check out. We are camped right off RM34 so we take that to RM29 (rm29 sucks way to rocky - take RM323 instead) to rm1444.







Michael says there is petroglyphs in this area so he takes us on a short 1 mile hike. In reality it felt like 3 miles haha.




Hey we find the petroglyphs - The bummer part is the originals are mixed in with modern ones .




From here we head back to camp to start dinner and call it a day.

What a perfect way to end the weekend. There was a small group towards the entrance off 395 and a few campers down at the lake. We got some great riding in and no crowds with great weather. Super fun trip!

  • Dirtclods wrote:
    Your always posting great stuff.


    Thanks!
  • We had some much fun! Ricky you have such great little famliy,the girls kept Debbie and I laughing all weekend long!!!!! Cuddleback lake is great area can't wait to go back!!! It was to bad that group of people ruined it for all us with painting on the airstrip. Definitely one are most favorite trips,can't wait for the next trip!
  • How you doing man, remember me I pulled next to you on the side of the road in littlerock,lol.
    Looks like you guy's had a blast! We love going riding out there so much to explore! Love reading your post!
  • mpoulsen wrote:
    We had some much fun! Ricky you have such great little famliy,the girls kept Debbie and I laughing all weekend long!!!!! Cuddleback lake is great area can't wait to go back!!! It was to bad that group of people ruined it for all us with painting on the airstrip. Definitely one are most favorite trips,can't wait for the next trip!


    Haha yeah, definitely some good times. Looking forward to more trips.
  • 24fb freedom wrote:
    How you doing man, remember me I pulled next to you on the side of the road in littlerock,lol.
    Looks like you guy's had a blast! We love going riding out there so much to explore! Love reading your post!


    Of course I remember you! I always tell that story :)
  • eDUBz wrote:
    Is cuddeback normally slower than other camps? We literally only saw about 8 other campers.


    I don't think so. It usually seems pretty busy out there. I think it's just the time of year.
  • dedmiston wrote:
    eDUBz wrote:
    Is cuddeback normally slower than other camps? We literally only saw about 8 other campers.


    I don't think so. It usually seems pretty busy out there. I think it's just the time of year.

    I think its usually less crowded than other places most of the time. :h
  • That’s. Good thing keep away from the crowds and still have plenty of
    Good riding.