Old school tranny cooler...LOL

[Road Ruler]

or.... that guy is not smart!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR4kTXalXb0

[Geodude]

Looks to me like someone didn't buy the updated version to the tide predictions book. 

[gijoecam]

I've been out there (Pismo Beach in California)  at low tide before, and seen pics of a Dodge that didn't make it...  I'm guessing that was an incoming tide? 

Isn't there also a southern entrance to the ORV area that's opened at certain times of the day?

[austinado16]

Hi live 13mi north of Pismo.  It's just a year round fraycus out there!  I have to admit though, that's one of the boldest creek crossings I've ever seen.

[wavery]

Hi live 13mi north of Pismo.  It's just a year round fraycus out there!  I have to admit though, that's one of the boldest creek crossings I've ever seen.

Also the dumbest......that guy's truck and trailer will never be the same. He destroyed both vehicles with sea water saturation.......what an idiot.....he should have just waited.

[austinado16]

The Park Rangers for the Ocean State Dunes take their trucks to the shop in where my brother works.  They can only keep them for a couple of years and then they have to be scrapped....literally.  The trucks are so rusted that the frames on a brand new Dodge or Ford, or Chevy, are rusted in half.  The brake calipers and rotors just rust solid until their's nothing left.  I've never seen anything like it. You'd think they'd been down with the Titanic.

[fallsrider]

I'm with Wavery....IDIOT!!.

No way would I want that TT after that.

[Rumpled]

I used to be a beach lifeguard and our Jeeps were stripped to the frame when new and painted with anticorrosive paint on all surfaces, then reassembled.  It might have been to keep the permanent employees occupied over the winter.
The Jeeps had a service life of three years, with usually the best remaining of the class kept as one of the backup vehicles.
In three years, those things were done!

[AustinMN]

I think the guy on the video said it perfectly..."That guy is not smart."

Austin

[Buckeye Hunter]

Why was he having to cross that?  Was that the only way to get too/from the area they were camping?  I looked at the satalite view of pismo beach & it looks like there are multiple acess to the beach area, but I might be wrong.  I definately wouldn't cross there, & from some of the other videos, I don't think I'd pull any big camper even on to the beach. 

[austinado16]

Crossing that creek is like a pilgramig for the hardcore's who camp out there.  I can't remember how far down the beach it is from the northern most ramp at the city of Grover Beach, but I think that even if you use the Oceano ramp, you still have to cross that.  The size, depth and location of that creek is always in a state of flux due to seasonal and weather conditions.  In the spring, winter and spring when we are getting our rains, it rages, like you see in that video.  During the rest of the year, it's probably not ankle deep.

Camping out at the Oceano dunes is a HUGE attraction, especially for the folks who live 150mi away in the central California valley where it's hot, and the air pollution is just unbelievable from all the agriculture.  Literally tens of thousands of people migrate over here every Friday through Sunday, in order to camp on the beach, ride their quads, motorcycle, and dune buggies, and put their big 4x4's to the ultimate test.  On the big holiday weekends, there are probably 100,000 people staying out on the dunes in everything from tents to the biggest 5er's and TT's with axle flips that money can buy.

If watch all the video's that are posted for Pismo Beach and Oceano Dunes, etc., you'll get an idea of what it's like there.  Plenty of vehicles are lost in that creek and the surf and I can't imagine the towing bills these people pay to have the big beach tow trucks come out and either rescue their rig, or, come out with a back-hoe or front loader and break their rig up and haul it off in pieces.

[gijoecam]

When I was there on vacation a few years back, it seemed to me that the north entrance was like 3 miles up the beach, and the south entrance was about a mile up the beach from the main ORV scramble area....  It was a week-day, so it was completely dead when I was there, which made riding a quad much more of a pleasure.  I've seen how crowded it gets, and can't even imagine the insanity on a holiday weekend.  It really looks like chaos.  (I personally don't see the allure, but to each his own).  IIRC, it was July when I was there, so the river was barely a trickle.

[austinado16]

Yeah, it's a complete Melee on the weekends and 1,000 times that during the holiday.  Add to that mix the fact that 99% of the people are drinking alcohol, and driving some sort of performance off-road "something," all over the place, and you have a real circus on your hands.  Typically only 2 park rangers on duty.

On top of that, it's sort of an ever radiating problem because these weekend warriors all come across the CA valley on Friday, on Hwy 41 and Hwy 46 (which merge into each other where James Dean was killed).  So it's all these big rigs towing their trialers and toy haulers screaming across the 2 lane in order toget here and get a spot on the beach, and then on Sunday, hungover, they all go screaming back home.  Makes for some extremely dangerous road conditions and there are some terrible accidents out there.