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With the temperature warming upwe don’t have any dune tripsplanned until Coral Pink, but thatgreat trip isn’t far away now.

Following Coral Pink we have theannual Lake Havasu trip planned forthe weekend of August 14-17th.Make your plans now to join us forsome summer fun.

Janece reports that the club flags aredone, and will be available for $20each. Thanks to Janece for gettingthese sewn up and screen printed.

With fewer trip articles this month,we have more fun and games. Wehave a clearer version of lastmonth’s word search, and Janecehas created a crossword that is onpage 3.

During a weekend in late April we made the nowtraditional end of season trip to Dumont. We had agreat turnout with Steve Porter, Kevin Fegan, MarkRhoades and the kids, Walt Fisher (with his newly ac-quired grey sandrail), Steve Tharp, John Cole, DeanCarver, Jim and Nancy Kstle, and Melissa and me. Itwas just a two day weekend for us, but we arrived atsunset on Friday thanks to the short drive (and leavingwork a little early).

Perhaps the biggest story of the trip was the debut ofWalt’s new car. We arrived to find that shortly afterGordon’s Well Walt had arranged to purchase JeffOliver’s beautiful grey sandrail. We were sad to hearthat Jeff had the car for sale, but were glad that thisspecial car didn’t go far. Walt was already quite famil-iar with this style of car, as he and Jeff had originally built their cars together years ago. Both cars have under-gone significant transformations over the years, with Jeff’s recently getting the 6.0 Liter V8 transplant. Waltreports that this makes it hard to pull you head off of the headrest while under acceleration.

We went for a number of rides on Saturday, and the weather was very nice. We were camped near the tips ofthe fingers, and didn’t have any problem with soft sand getting into camp. Kevin Fegan came out for the firsttime in a few years with his 3.8 Liter V6 car and enjoyed being back in the dunes. With relatively little trafficin the dunes we were able to get up to high speeds quickly, and saw over 70 miles per hour out on the back sideof the dunes. This got a little interesting when John Cole’s tie rod spreader came off of the steering rack, which

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June 10th:

Club Meeting at Denny’s.

July 6-8th:

Time in Mesquite on the

way to Coral Pink!

July 8th-18th:

We’ll be in the park at

Coral Pink!

July 18th-19th:

One more night at the

CasaBlaca on the way home.

Keep in mind that there will not

be the usual July club meeting

since we’ll be at Coral Pink. We

do however plan on going to

Lotsa Motsa Pizza in Kanab!

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caused the car to spin out and do a 180 on the side of a relatively steepdune. Fortunately it came to a stop without further event, and we wereable to get it back together and he continued on for the rest of theweekend.

We sat around some in themiddle of the day Saturday, butwent for great rides too. We dida little welding on my car, andformulated plans to update therear five link mounts beforeCoral Pink. Since mine was thefirst of the high school five linkcars, we have since made someiterative improvements, andnow we’ll go back and updatemine to make it a little stronger.

On Sunday we went for another fast ride through the dunes. Kevinhad a rear bearing go out, so we led him back to camp and continuedon. Then we had a little event where Walt crossed a ridge into awitch’s eye which is rumored to have flipped the new car over ontoit’s roof and side. By the time we got back to the scene the car wasplaced skillfully on all four wheels, and the damage was limited to abent spindle and whip tab. Walt drove back to camp, and we maderepairs before heading home and Walt and those lucky enough to get

to spend another day out therewent for an afternoon ride.

We left on Sunday after-noon and headed home. Weate at the Mad Greek in Bakerand began looking forward tothe next time we’d be drivingthrough there with the traileron the way to Coral Pink. Wecan’t wait!

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Janece created a word search puzzlelast month, but it printed in a differentfont. Here it is again in a clearer for-mat. This does mean you’ll have towait another month for the answers...

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Thanks again to Janece for creating this puzzle. We’ll publish the answers next month.

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This month we would like to thank Janece Grossmann for creating the word search and crossword puz-zles. We are short on newsletter content, so anything you can contribute will help fill the pages. Next monthwe’ll have a preview of Coral Pink by looking back on some past summer Utah trips. -P.J. and Melissa Kastle

Danny Sprinkle 6/1Karissa Hagen 6/3Jeremy Hagen 6/3

Angela Stutte 6/4David Schellinger 6/16

Linda Hagen 6/20

Matt Becker 6/21Steve Porter 6/25

Jeannine Gaudreau 6/30

The Hagens have two child’shelmets for sale:Both were purchased atChaparral, 3 years ago. Bothare full face with visors. Exte-rior is in good shape, minorscratches. Inside is in perfectshape, foam intact, no tears.Black one is a child Small andthe Yellow one is a child Me-dium. $50 each. ContactPete/Linda at 760-451-0845

Todd Cochran has his PolarisRZR For Sale:Polaris RZR 800 EFI, Verylow hours and in excellentcondition, since the photoswere taken he added rearpaddle tires and front mo-hawks on aluminum rims.$9000

Contact Todd atltcdds@verizon.net or call(909) 965-2193

Don and Shirley have theirFiberglass Dune Buggy ForSale:1600cc dual port engine,street legal, beautiful paintjob, must see to appreciate.

$6500Contact Don or ShirleyFord:(928) 680-0657 Home(928) 846-2304 Cell

P.J. and Melissa have aYamaha Golf Cart ForSale:Late 1990’s G14 Gasgolf cart with lift. Floorsits 24 inches above theground. Stock motor,runs well.$2000 oboContact P.J. Kastle:(951) 285-8459pkastle@msn.com

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Inland Empire Offroad AssociationP.O. Box 132411

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YOU. If they stop, you stop and wait for the group to return to you. This prevents separation and in this manner wenever leave a member in the dunes. Remember, it’s easier to find you if you stay still: “a moving target is harder to hit”

4. PLEASE OBSERVE THE “RIDE RATINGS” ON THE CLUB BOARD AND SELECT THOSE RIDES YOU WISHTO PARTICIPATE IN. If you wish to lead a ride, put the time and type of ride you want to lead on the board and thenstick to that time. No passing on rides (except #6 rides). You can always change your place in line at a break or if youare waved on by the driver ahead of you.

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