Xscapers Annual Bash Part 2

Sunrise At American Girl Mine BLM Area - 1/22/18

We arrived at the Xscapers Bash Part2 location on Friday Jan 20th.  The area is a BLM area open to free camping and restricted to 14 day stays.  There are no facilities or services of any kind.  However, the area is very quiet with some gusty winds and sometimes some blowing dust.

Here's a video of the Xscapers area.

Although the Xscapers have a number of fun events, we've not done too much since our arrival.  On Sunday evening there was a beer tasting ("Beerluck") and a campfire. There was a very nice variety of beers to try.  I particularly like a Scotish Ale called Kilt Lifter - very full bodied with a very smooth taste.

   We needed to dump or trash today. So we traveled a few miles down I-8 to the Imperial Sand Dunes where there were some dumpsters.  The dunes are apparently very popular with the dune buggy and ATV crowd.  There were not very many machines on the dunes on Tuesday.  I suspect it gets a lot busier on the weekends.

 The dunes encompass an area more than 40 miles long.

We climbed nearly to the crest of the dunes nearest the highway.  The dunes are at least 250ft tall and the climbing in the soft sand is not easy.

 In the early part of the twentieth century the only road for vehicles over the dunes was an 8ft wide wooden plank road.  Reportedly the original road was seven miles long and had to be moved repeatedly by teams of horses to avoid being covered by the drifting sand.

Another sunrise at American Girl Mine.