OK,did Mud Patrol Saturday. Lake still has ALOT of water on it. Our racecourse is still submerged all the way from about access rd #3 all the way to Calloways. Its starting to recede from the north and south shores.
Didn't see anybody near the water,but several vehicles were running along the edges. I called the BLM comm center and was told there were no LEOs in the area. Apperantly there was a big rock crawling event near Lucerne and they were all over there. So basically,my time was wasted. At least from my position (MM#3/access rd.#9) I saw no incursions of the lakebed. When I left,I found the gate wide open.
On top of that,I helped a hispanic guy get his UNREGISTERED Chinese quad running. His group had a total of 6 people(Two adult males,two teenage males and a boy and a girl in the 8-10 age range riding quads that were WAAAY too big for them). 4 of the quads were Chinese and were displaying no Green Stickers and the two Japanese quads the teenagers were riding had stickers that were 4 years outta date. I commented that the younger kids were on quads too big for them and the reply as "its OK,hes been riding since he was 2". They also made comment about having been hassled at other parks,so thats why they come to El Mirage.
Its nice to see that the hundreds of thousand of tax dollars spent on a visitors center and that the personnel are doing such a great job of enforcing the rules on everybody else like they do on us. I feel all warm and fuzzy to know that the portion of the 1/3rd of my paycheck that I 'voluntarily' give the government every month is being used SO efficiently along with the time I spent there trying to protect the lakebed with no LEO backup.
Gotta love that bureacratic efficiency