Dust Devil Chase at El Mirage dry lake

My fiancée and I took at trip out to Palm Springs CA in August of 2006 and one of our scheduled stops was to spend the day chasing dust devils at El Mirage Dry Lake because I have always been fascinated with these amazing phenomena's. Here's one of the dust devils that we captured and ran into that day. ENJOY!!!!!!

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Travel & Events

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• dust
• devil
• el
• mirage
• dry
• lake

[Drummaster515]

Hey director,

Well we spent 2 full days there between 10-4 in August. As you probally know the best time to go is when the sun is at it's hottest point during the summer months. I don't live in CA so I wanted to play my cards right so we went to this dry lake which has the perfect conditions to view these. Are you thinking about going yourself?

[guntardnet]

A lot safer than chasing tornadoes, anyway.

[Drummaster515]

Yes it is it's nice that you can get right up to them but I do want to eventually see a real tornado.

[6Seraph6]

At 1:55 i thought i saw Aang

[Weezermon10]

haha nice its animerocker741. i got a cr 85 too. youve been to pumpkin patch before?

[RELENTLESS65]

i rode a dirt bike through it before at El mirage on my cr 85 nothing happened i just got a little dusty.

[AnimeRocker741]

would it be safe if you rode, lets say, a motorcycle through it? What would happen?

[hurricaneheardy111]

Nice dust devil it is big and really windy, they appear at 1-3pm during the heat of the day at El Mirage and Calico dry lake.Also they are found in Palm Springs aswell there is a video on youtube showing one in Palm Springs!

P.S. Hi I changed my username from directorinthechair to hurricaneheardy111

Also,I made a group

[directorinthechair]

What times did you see dust devils at El Mirage Dry Lake?