Desert Dogs

The Desert Dog Stomp Club and Desert Dog Troglodytes A November 1981 weekend of Punk Rock and Desert Exploration started it all. Its a bit easier today.
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The orginial Desert Cabin, caves and old mine camps were the lure then and now. Then the only way you could be a member was to bottom a 1,250' mine shaft in 29 Palms. The Desert Dogs love to explore off road and undergorund. We tread lightly.

05/15/2024

Beep Beep ! The saga continues .

04/22/2024

And a few minutes later , it begins ….

04/21/2024

Coachella is in the Colorado desert . Good friends getting to rock the desert today, just like the old days.

03/27/2024

https://youtu.be/GHB9pqO5tCs?si=T44SkE0MOOSoKBPa

Public Service Notice to fellow Desert Memorabilia Film Nerds.

Right now every version of the cult desert movie “Tremors” is free with adds on YouTube. Check out “Tremors 4” a prequel in which the monster sand worms play havoc in a gold mine. Note some scenes are shot in Calico Ghost Town and Bronson caves.

For those out of the loop “Tremors” is a series of campy B cult classic horror /comedy films about giant sand worms living in the desert.

The highlight being, “Free with ads” , because paying to watch these films is debatable.

Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic man-eating creatures tha...

03/18/2024

12/24/2023

Reindeer can enjoy my rock Collection to the fullest !!! Researchers suggest the Reindeer can see in Ultra Violet which helps them locate food in the snow.,

UCL researchers have discovered that reindeer can not only see ultraviolet (UV) light, but that it is also crucial to their survival in the harsh Arctic environment.

12/24/2023

Shout out to John Norman of the Desert Dogs who in recent years took our cave micro blasting techniques to a whole new level being applied to confined space rescue. Yesterday John and members of the San Bernardino County Sherrif Cave Rescue team successfully freed a man trapped underground in San Diegos Point Loma cliffs for 3 days by using controlled micro explosives.

12/14/2023

10/15/2023

THIS TRAIN'LL STOP AT TUCUMCARI

09/11/2023

A hordágy elérte a -500 méteres bivakot. Innen kis pihenővel a tervek szerint megkezdődik a magyar🇭🇺 és horvát🇭🇷 csapat szakasza, egészen kb -120 méterig. Hajrá magyarok, legyetek ti is pont olyan ügyesek, mint az eddigi szakaszon dolgozó kollegák! 🤞💪
The stretcher has reached the -500 m camp. After a short rest the Hungarian🇭🇺-Croatian🇭🇷 team begins the transport to the next checkpoint at -120 m. Go Hungary, do a great job, as great as the fellows did in the previous parts of the cave🤞💪
https://www.caverescue.hu/index.php/hirek

09/03/2023

Many roads across the Mojave Desert can be described as lonely, but apparently there are exceptions.

05/06/2023

Camel - Flage

03/06/2023

03/04/2023

Slightly used Rope

03/01/2023

Part 3 Day Off

03/01/2023

More of the Day Off !

03/01/2023

Day Off

02/28/2023

Coming soon the Cave trip that is out of this world

12/22/2022

If you have any Rock Exotica pulleys, please check them as there is an active recall on the 1.1" Omni right now:

https://www.facebook.com/sanbernardinocaverescue/posts/pfbid02zEHw2DgLCc4qMAnfTw19BA91ZuBM1PaVeRYQHosYPW53G3qdk7p6fBTwkqaDd7d4l

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12/17/2022

Underground Ukraine

11/05/2022

Drone Video Blasting at the War Eagle Mine,

10/12/2022

Blasting road hazards at the War Eagle Mine
with John Norman, Chris Adams , Douglas E Billings, Sarah Truebe,
and James Rice,

10/06/2022

This is not Death Valley, nor Glamis, Kelso or Dumont.
This is actually part of Kherson Ukraine , the second largest desert in Europe. Oleshky Sands Nature Preserve.

09/11/2022

Death Valley NP getting slammed again !

09/10/2022

Monday Tuesday Abandoned Mine Team , Wednesday Thursday Technical Cave Team . With John Metzger Douglas E Billings John Norman, and Laura

09/06/2022

It is 3:41 AM in Montana. what you all doin ? We’re hiking off a mountain . With John Norman, John Metzger, Douglas E Billings and Laura .

08/28/2022

Tierra Del Sol Safari, Don of the Desert and one of the Jeepsters. Mike Bisnar sneaking up in his Scrambler., I think that’s Walter in his Chev-ota , Land Cruiser upper left ..

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Beep Beep ! The saga continues .

and a few minutes later ….. PS, do you see the Desert Dog Sticker ?

And a few minutes later , it begins ….

Old friends getting ready to kill it as the the desert heats up outside !

Coachella is in the Colorado desert . Good friends getting to rock the desert today, just like the old days.

Drone Video Blasting at the War Eagle Mine,

Blasting road hazards at the War Eagle Mine with John Norman, Chris Adams , Douglas E Billings, Sarah Truebe, and James Rice,

The official surf band of the Desert Dogs is “The Riptides” playing a reunion show tonight in So-Cal. The Riptides played on and participated in many of our trips, yeah like we said, when we went exploring we brought the band along too. That’s Randy Redmon on Vocal, Tom Doyle on Drums, Dave Moore on Lead, and world famous Sax Player , AKA Marmaduke, Michael Brown ! Plus the two Steve’s ! Look out for the Poor-man too !

This video is of Aly Coyle, our Visiting caver from Ireland, who shares her first experiences with the Cave Amblypygi “Pseudo Scorpions, large arachnids that populate the cave by the millions ( population according to Aly)

Cold River Cave

Southern most cave in the United States

This is probally the southern most cave in the United States.

Isolated 300 year old Jewish cemetery in the Ukraine countryside, near our caving area.

The 9th floor, there is a nice leather jacket lying on the ground, darker and scarier up at the top, random holes in the floor add to the sketchiness.

Urban Exploring, abandoned Soviet era building sits on the edge of town. Looks like it was never finished, the stairway entrance was bricked up, but with a little effort a bypass was found on another set on an adjoining building. No zombies were hurt in the making of this film.

We were just 16 years old when the Desert Dogs got it's start. It could be said there were times that we would now easily describe as reckless. We were all a bit wild, but one guy truly held the trophy. Greg was there on that first trip and he came up with the idea to create a club and gave it the name. If a cat has 9 lives, then Greg was an OG Desert Dog with 99 lives and he used them on regular basis. Greg had not been well for a time and last week he checked himself out of medical care facility and then headed to his cabin in the remote Desert east of 29 Palms. There was a record heat wave hitting the Deserts and it proved a bit too much for even the toughest guy you ever met. He succumbed to a heat stroke sometime late last week. Greg Hill, 002, aka the High Planes Stoner, is now out traveling on that sunset trail. This video is Greg dropping a mine in the east Mohave around 1984. A few minutes later a boulder hits him on rappel and breaks his shoulder, he still climbs out on his own. Look carefully for the black eye too, results from something we can't even Remember. Greg had a heart of gold, not saying he obtained the gold legally, , but none the less , still a heart of gold and he will be missed. The best thing Greg ever did was let his 13 year old little brother Dan tag along with us. Dan went on to become an exemplary model of a Desert Dog in every way. Dan then served in the US Army deployed in Iraq for Desert Storm. He entered boot camp already a trained soldier and marksman partly thanks to the teachings of his big brother.