Our Thanksgiving trip to the desert

[eDUBz]

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.

[eDUBz]

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.

[coolbreeze01]

I hope the fireworks were set off by only a few idiots. BLM etc. would really like to shut down the desert to us taxpayers. Don't make it easy for those tax suckers...........

[Dirtclods]

(Inscription Canyon Petroglyphs) You can get there from Copper City road in Barstow as well.

[mpoulsen]

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

[mrw8i]

24fb freedom wrote:

dedmiston wrote:

mrw8i wrote:
This is one of the cooler places we have ridden to from Cal City - long ride but worth it.

Inscription Canyon Petroglyphs

We rode there over Thanksgiving.

we need more info on this! Seems like it's awesome!!!

When we first got there, we couldn't believe there were so many and wondered if most of them were fake (recent). Found a few sites online later and almost all of them are real.

Please tread lightly, bring home pictures only - there has been some damage done over the years.

It's about 30 minutes (by RZR) east (south east) of the Husky Memorial site.

[eDUBz]

mrw8i wrote:
This is one of the cooler places we have ridden to from Cal City - long ride but worth it.

Inscription Canyon Petroglyphs

Thats bad ass, need to check that out next time we hit the desert.

[24fb_freedom]

dedmiston wrote:

mrw8i wrote:
This is one of the cooler places we have ridden to from Cal City - long ride but worth it.

Inscription Canyon Petroglyphs

We rode there over Thanksgiving.

we need more info on this! Seems like it's awesome!!!

[Strabo]

jackxclan wrote:

Strabo wrote:

jackxclan wrote:

BizmarksMom wrote:
Nice!

I started out in Johnson Valley where I met up with my brother. Then we both headed to Boron area to camp with my cousins. (Got kicked out of the Boron Prison by some really official looking Federal guys.) We ended up with my sister camping across from Wagon Wheel.

The wind Saturday broke a slide support. And didn't let up until I dropped down out of Jordan Valley, 2 hours from home. Still, good times in a great area!

Info on this boron prison deal sounds like fun

A few in my group rode out to that ghost town prison.

Is that the prison in cal city?

No, it's the abandoned ghost town one past the boron mine.

[jackxclan]

Strabo wrote:

jackxclan wrote:

BizmarksMom wrote:
Nice!

I started out in Johnson Valley where I met up with my brother. Then we both headed to Boron area to camp with my cousins. (Got kicked out of the Boron Prison by some really official looking Federal guys.) We ended up with my sister camping across from Wagon Wheel.

The wind Saturday broke a slide support. And didn't let up until I dropped down out of Jordan Valley, 2 hours from home. Still, good times in a great area!

Info on this boron prison deal sounds like fun

A few in my group rode out to that ghost town prison.

Is that the prison in cal city?

[BizmarksMom]

Nice! We found some petroglyphs, but nothing that cool.

[dedmiston]

mrw8i wrote:
This is one of the cooler places we have ridden to from Cal City - long ride but worth it.

Inscription Canyon Petroglyphs

We rode there over Thanksgiving.

[mrw8i]

This is one of the cooler places we have ridden to from Cal City - long ride but worth it.

Inscription Canyon Petroglyphs

[Strabo]

jackxclan wrote:

BizmarksMom wrote:
Nice!

I started out in Johnson Valley where I met up with my brother. Then we both headed to Boron area to camp with my cousins. (Got kicked out of the Boron Prison by some really official looking Federal guys.) We ended up with my sister camping across from Wagon Wheel.

The wind Saturday broke a slide support. And didn't let up until I dropped down out of Jordan Valley, 2 hours from home. Still, good times in a great area!

Info on this boron prison deal sounds like fun

A few in my group rode out to that ghost town prison.

[eDUBz]

24fb freedom wrote:

eDUBz wrote:

24fb freedom wrote:
Looks like a lot of fun,we stayed in cal city and rode around there then took two long trips,one to randsburg on our rzr (I need to check on the pinion nut also)
And our other long trip was to the foxy landing at the cal city airport for lunch on our rzr also, we also went to the boron abandoned prison, all are cool sites!!!
Specialy Randsburg's general store and those banana splits!!

I have a PDF file on the pinion nut repair and special tool requirement of you want me to email it to you. Good times in the Desert!

thanks! I got in touch with pullerguy (les) from the rzr forum and he is mailing me the parts and tools,having lots of info could never hurt,lol. I'll PM you for that PDF file.thanks again.

Thats it, he has everything you need. They just uploaded a YouTube video of Les doing a repair.