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Hi Bart, I loved those Dixie runs, I'm so glad you got to experience running it with me. I almost ate it on Dixie about 30 times, what a blast! Dust flying, big invisible ruts hidden in the fine dust, no gaurdrails with a cliff on one side and a vertical wall of rock on the other, and driving to the ragged edge, awesome. Talk about a good time.

Unfortunatly, Dixie has been closed now to thru traffic. There are fire gates at the top and bottom of the dirt section. When the traffic was too heavy on the canyon roads of the 90's, I always used Dixie as a shortcut to the Valley. I used to go down to Ventura in the morning and pick up my friend that used to help me with my projects. I saw a lot of illegal dumping of debris on Dixie, and one day we smelled bad stuff over the side. I called the Police and they found another body dumped over the cliff in vegitation(this had happened for years). Neighbors got together, signed petitions, and rallied with the Councilman to close Dixie. I was responsible for getting all signatures north of Muholland.

When I was young I used Dixie on my bicycle to go get candy at the liquor store on Ventura. One day in 1966 I was hauling ass down the long upper straightaway when I hit one of those hidden ruts and went flying over the handlebars. I sat there in the dust and for about 10 minutes everything was in black and white, no color vision at all. Ahh my first concussion, thanks for the memories...