Raptor at Silver Lake Dunes for 1st Time | Chasing with MavicPro | Camping Muskegon State Park

NOTICE: On July 29, 2021 an exemption for the Silver Lake Dunes ORV scramble area to the drag racing ban was signed into law. Reportedly Park personnel immediately set to removing the Drag Racing Prohibited signs from the Dune area. So the signs you see in this video should no longer be there.

July 6, 2021. Part of the reason for the trip, at least for Robert. He had come all the way from Connecticut to camp with us AND take his Raptor on the Dunes at Silver Lake State Park. The only Dunes east of the Mississippi that you can drive vehicles on. He said that everyone said that Test Hill is intimidating but he didn't think it would be... but it IS. Nevertheless we climbed that hill, multiple times. Did the entire circuit multiple times and got almost all of it on video. This is edited down, of course, and is probably one of our most complicated video edits. Hope you enjoy watching our day on the Dunes at least a fraction of how much we enjoyed spending our day there.

Robert's air compressor stopped working part way through airing back up the tires so we got the free air at the ORV Welcome Center. I left the video of the quarter-mile trip in here so that if any of you are considering going and want to know about using the free air to air back up can see where that is. It is at around 37 mins into the video if you need to jump to that point.

0:00 Intro
2:22 Arriving at the ORV Scramble Area
3:28 Airing Down
4:31 Getting to the Dune Access 'Road'
6:26 Mavic Pro is up, Heading onto the Dunes
9:00 Getting Intimidated by the 'Giant Hill' (Test Hill)
10:37 First run up Test Hill (cutout)
11:50 The smaller hills to the pedestrian area
13:05 Landing the Mavic Pro; initial impressions
14:13 The Dune Area near the Beach. A lot of Blind Spots.
14:45 Hill Descent Control works great
16: 26 Coming back to Test Hill
16:57 Second run up Test Hill (cutout again, no drone)
17:32 More of the smaller dunes "That's how it's done"
18:20 Driving parallel to pedestrian area again
18:50 What do the Red Signs say?
19:34 "Oh this is cool." Ridge Running
20:40 "Drone up?" starting an extended following flight
21:24 Third run up Test Hill (peak section, with Mavic Pro and fresh battery)
22:00 Continuing on along smaller hills (with Mavic Pro)
23:27 Along pedestrian area (with Mavic Pro)
24:00 "Flat" area (with Mavic Pro)
25:14 "Test Hill again?" heading back to the 'start line' (with Mavic Pro)
26:36 "Whenever you're ready" Fourth run up Test Hill (cutout, Mavic Pro flying low)
27:12 Catching up to the Raptor with the Mavic Pro
27:48 Back to the 'chase'
28:45 Pedestrian area again (with Mavic Pro)
29:14 Ridge riding again (with Mavic Pro this time)
29:52 Heading back to Test Hill
31:00 Landing the Mavic Pro
31:34 Damage check
32:00 "We'll go check out the Lake"
32:22 "Well, there's the beach"
32:39 Montage (shot with Mavic Pro)
34:44 Back to the parking lot, compressor failure, heading to get free air
36:22 "Free air available at Welcome Center
37:10 Arriving at Welcome Center
38:15 The free air
40:10 Done doing "guy stuff"
40:46 Back to Muskegon State Park, damage check

Sorry about the only HD version on this, Rumble has a limit on the size of files we can upload currently, and the 4K version would not go.

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