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eDUBz
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Nov 28, 2016

Our Thanksgiving trip to the desert

First off want to thank Nayther for giving us some directions to setup camp in Spangler Hills - Mojave Desert. We setup camp about 2 miles north of Teagle wash, it was a lil packed down there. We left home Tuesday around noon, it's a 3-4 hour drive one way for us.

Camp setup.



A beautiful sunset in the desert. The weather was perfect about 50ish degrees and dead calm with plenty of sun.


Smile! Family photo time haha! All pics were shot with my wife's iPhone, mine has no more storage over 3k pics, I'm a phone hoarder.


Next day the wind kicked up and was blowing pretty good most of the day but that didn't stop us from exploring around. Wednesday was the only day it was windy after that it was awesome weather.



Our youngest daughter and the dog going for a ride.


Another reason why we like BLM land so the kids can roam free drive the RZR and shoot their pellet guns.



Friday around noon we decided to make a run down to the Pinnacles in the truck. I wanted to take the RZR but the rear pinion nut needs to be addressed before we take it on a long run. In the 2012-2014 RZR 800 The pinion nut backs out because of the nylon washer getting to hot and loosening up and blowing out the rear gear case. I didn want to take any chances in the desert riding solo.






We headed home Saturday Morning, when we got Santa Clarita area the weather was looking crappy, when we got to Simi Valley it was pouring rain all the way home.
  • mpoulsen wrote:
    Hi eDUBz, This Micheal (Hotel California),I was the one u contacted about doing it pinion nut! So when do u want to hook up to do that?!, My wife and I were at Jaw Bone the week before Thanksgiving and spent four days.We love that whole area! I did my pinion nut already the tool that you can rent is great, get the whole package that comes with the nut and seal and let me know when you want me to knock that out for you, so we can go riding together out in the Desert!!! I have not been to lot of those places you guys have been talking about!! We have a two seater 800 and 40' Rage'n toy hauler (given the name "Hotel California") we always have guest,lol. My step daughter is expecting with her first child due January 20 so the wife says we are not going anywhere till after the baby is born,but let me know when/if you want to drop off your RZR while I stuck home bound for awhile!!lol


    Sweet! Pm sent.