Presidents Day at Dumont

We have been having a great time out at Dumont this year! We decided to head out on one of the busiest holidays of the seasons.

We got out there Friday night and as we came up over the hill Dumont was looked like a huge city all lit up!

Saturday we finally got up had our breakfast (brunch), and headed out for the first ride of the weekend, their was a ton of people out there!

We had been riding for a while and decided to head over to the front of the dunes and watch the Jeep pulls. Lacy and Cole were in the Teryx and were going across a hill, not a really steep hill. They were clipping along pretty good and the next thing I see is the Teryx going over.

When I finally got over to them, Cole was pulling himself out of his seat belts, and I looked down and seen Lacy out cold! She had blood running down both sides of her face. When she finally came to, she was getting claustrophobic from being buckled in and being face down in the sand. By then Mark, Wade and some other guy showed up and we tipped the machine back over and tried to get it started but it wouldn't run. So I jumped on Wade's bike with Lacy in front of me and headed over to the Ranger station. Now that was a sight, both of us on one bike with no helmets, with blood running down Lacy's face!

Wade's bike quit and I wasn't able to get it started, but luckily our friend Cory had seen us and he showed up on his RZR and took Lacy to the Ranger Station, while I had to hitch hike a ride over with one of the Rangers!

Lacy was trying to talk me and the nurse into just letting her go back to the trailer and wash off. she was pretty sure she would be okay! I loaded her up and headed off to Pahrump Hospital, to see.

This is the left side, there was no cut on this side!

The sand had packed into the cut so tight, that it had helped to stop the bleeding! That was the good thing the bad thing was that it took the nurse almost two hours to scrub all of the sand out of her hair to find the cut!

Doesn't look to bad here!

Here it is! The cut was 1/4" deep and about 3" long!

One CT Scan, 6 staples, and 4 hours later, we were out of the Pahrump ER room headed back to Dumont.

This definitely was one of the scariest things that I have been through! I am so glad that this is all that happened. Cole was a little freaked out the rest of the weekend to even ride his four wheeler, he thought that it was going to roll. He has rolled twice in the Teryx this year, he has every right to be a little freaked out!

Lacy is doing better, she stuck it out all weekend at the dunes. She has had a pretty good headache, and the kids have been taking pretty good care of her!

We have been going to the sand dunes for about 11 years now, and this is the first time that we have had to go to the ER, and hopefully the last!