I grew up in Hauser area - wheeled in sand all the time growing up - I'm do miss it now - but did get pretty sick of it for awhile - LOL!
In high school had three different buddies lose their rigs to the ocean (got stuck to close to the water and the tide came in) One of which was a BRAND new loaded '95 Suburban my junior year of high school - man was his Dad pissed. Fun times!
My first truck was a '75 K20 - bent the crap out of the frame on that thing doing stupid airborne tricks in the sand.