The girls are tied up at a horse camp all next week so the Kid and I are gonna paddle up and head to St. Anthony Sand dunes.  Any advise?  We'll be camping in the bike trailer any suggested campgrounds?  What should we expect?  Anyone got any good links they could forward?

Thanks in advance,

Booger

No but your going to have a hell of a time, guaranteed.

My best advice is:

1. Remember to mount orange flags on your machines. Alot of collisions.

2. Dont jump a dune crest no matter how tempting, until you see whats on the bottom of the other side. I have seen people get seriously &%$#@!ed up landing in the rocks.

3. Pick a good line on Choke Cherry,  hit it going as fast as you can, don't miss-shift on it.  You'll know what I'm saying when you see it.

many of the dunes in the flats have whats called  witches eyes, which in themselves are dangerous, they dont really appear until the ground has dropped out from under you its like a halfmoon crestant that droped straight off. and in st anthonies there are also rocks at the bottom.

so pay attention when you first get there you will understand once you see them.

its a great place to ride watch your fuel though its a very long park.

becareful of your speed at the very top of choke cherry sometimes there is a nice knife edge at the top and it drops straight off the back side 50ft down. throttle up and them chop it at the last second to have a look before you sail down the backside freefall style.

been a few years since i was there but you can find some beautiful sloped jumps to get 40-50ft of air safely.

I was there last year,  the BLM campground right in the middle is pretty nice. You can get to pretty much everything from there and not have to worry about running out of gas as much . If you go all the way to the end, you might want to turn around and head back because you're probably low on gas. Awesome dunes, but's lots of razor backs as compared to other dunes I've ridden.

Great Information.  Thank you very much.  Only have a couple little things to do to the kids bike, Throw some groceries in a cooler fuel up and haul balls.  Thanks again.

Booger.

Someone crashed a and died there on Saturday. Hope you are ok.

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It's a great place, but dangerous as hell. There's a real steep learning curve there. Like snow drifts, it all blends in together and before you know it the ground beneath you is gone and your falling. Seen it happen more than I care for.

I recommend carefully traveling parrallel to the razor edge of the dunes and zig zagging to get to your destination, like Choke Cherry hill or where ever else. This will help avoid falling into the 'witches eyes', which are a death trap.