2010 SDAR Annual Desert Dash pics

Every year for the past 6 years San Diego Adventure riders has put on a two day event in February at the Anza Borrego Desert state park called the Desert Dash. It always gets all the limited entries filled and riders come from as far away as Japan (every year!) to ride it. We stage the event out of the Butterfield campground on Highway S2 and have scheduled lunch stops for the participants. Each day is there is a 150 mile route to follow with the supplied roll chart. This year, we had some rain and the desert was pretty nice.

This is the first year (7th Annual) that I was able to actually make it down there for the event. I was supposed to be riding with the sweep team on Saturday, but was too out of sorts and out of shape to stick with them, so I ended up catching up with an old friend and we rode part of the course together. I saw lots of Husqvarnas out there.

Here is the fixed link to the pictures from the event.

http://www.dualsport-sd.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6659

I was glad to see them too. The ride was starting to look like a pumpkinfest at certain points.

Yes, they were one of the sponsors. I think that the best remembered sponsor would have to be Brown Bag Lunch that fed all those hungry riders.

Hey DD looks like your link to the Annual Desert Dash has been moved.

Looks like the only way to see it is to be a member of SDAR.

Anyway of posting some pics so us C/H members can see some?

They moved it to it's own forum. I just edited the link, so try again. The one above worked for me before I changed it.

Crappity, it appears to be in the regular forum area, but somebody must have screwed up. I sent a PM to the owner of the website, so I hope he'll fix it soon. there were lots of people on that ride that aren't SDAR members that I'm sure would like to have a look at the pics and write ups. Was working before they moved it.

The forum has been fixed and is public now. The link in the original post works.

Hey DD,

Thanx for all the hard work.

Love your pictures and others. Lot of riders.

Pretty big group. Looks like everyone had fun even if it did rain a bit.

Your jacket...is that one of Kelly's?

I don't have any good shots of me riding , but the lunch stop was a high point in my day.

I think that entries are limited to 100 and they all get filled each year, plus sweep and volunteer, and a few people who aren't signed up and ride parts of the course. But the riders are all spread out, so the course is never crowded. I rode part of it going in the wrong direction. Riders can start the ride each day at any time they want, so little batches of riders leave Butterfield all morning long. Best not to start too late though, or the lunch guys will run out of sammiches.

Yeah, that's the Motosports Sinisalo Husky jacket. Gotta love it.

Here is yet another write up about THe Dash on a different forum.

http://www.district37ama.org/forums/showpost.php?p=456292&postcount=4

Nothing is like the old days, but the desert is still pretty good...so far!

We have a lot of sponsors for the event, and a couple of them are local Husqvarna dealers (GP and Motoforza). We also have KTM North America as a sponsor and the SDAR Prez is hoping to add Husqvarna for future Dashes.

S'posedta rain down our way Saturday....