Sand Scorpions burn Christmas trees for 31st year

Sand Scorpions annual Christmas Tree Burn event.

Participants drag Christmas trees to be burned at the Sand Scorpions' event on New Year's Day.

by SAM FLETCHER
Staff Writer | January 5, 2021 1:00 AM

MOSES LAKE — On New Year’s Day, diesel engines quaked across the cookies and cream terrain of snow on the Moses Lake Sand Dunes, as pickups, Jeeps and ORVs pulled up to turn the casual holiday to a sort of “Mad Max” movie.

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