john - 10-26-2004 at 06:57 PM
I will be going to camp at guadalupe cyn. next week. In the baja almanac there looks to be a jeep trail leeding to a place called el palomar about 25
miles south. anyone driven to this site and is it worth the drive? what is el palomar?
Neal Johns - 10-26-2004 at 07:17 PM
It is an abandoned ranch requiring 4wd to get to. Beyond, less than a mile, just past the end of the road, are hot pools that will require cleaning
out due to little use. The road is on the left side of the canyon (past the corral).
[Edited on 10-27-2004 by Neal Johns]
Neal Johns - 10-26-2004 at 07:32 PM
Road beyond ranch:
john - 10-26-2004 at 07:42 PM
are you moving rocks or looking for something?
David K - 10-26-2004 at 07:54 PM
John, I have listened to two people that were on that trip. Neal is laughingly leading his friends into a trap!
They are 'road building' so the non-Toyotas in the group can get closer to the hot springs in Palomar.
Neal Johns - 10-26-2004 at 08:17 PM
Well, it is an interesting trip.
David K - 10-26-2004 at 08:22 PM
Hey Neal, how about posting the details agian on getting to Palomar Canyon?
john - 10-26-2004 at 08:36 PM
I would like to read the details
jide - 10-26-2004 at 09:07 PM
That's one canyon I'd like to explore !!
Check out my Tajo canyon pictures, taken in the Sierra Juarez as well:
www.vivabaja.com/jide/
Neal Johns - 10-26-2004 at 09:17 PM
Directions to Rancho El Palomar from Canyon Guadalupe ?driveway?:
Start: 0.0 Junction of main north/south dirt road and signed dirt road west to Canyon
Guadalupe. Go south on main road.
6.0 Continue straight (south) on road not on Baja Almanac, do not turn left to Ejido Guardines de la Patria.
XX Cross 200 foot sand wash shortly after passing ?Keep out? signed ranch driveway on right.
XX Cross half mile wide sand wash of lower Canyon Palomar. Road will continue south near (but out of sight of) east bank of Canyon Palomar.
20-21 (approximately) Turn right to go to corral in Canyon Palomar, and continue past it (no tracks maybe) until you pick up the road on the left side
of canyon.
24-25 (approximately) Rancho Palomar. The main tracks are frequently bottomless mud due to the springs feeding this palm grove. It is seasonally used
as a line shack. Do not disturb. Continue past, and cross rocky Canyon Palomar (picture) in a half mile. Continue a half mile to end of road. Observe
concrete hot tub over edge of arroyo. It needs a few hundred feet of hose to get water from the hot spring up canyon on right bank. The concrete tubs
at the spring will probably be filled with palm fronds and mud.
Neal Johns - 10-26-2004 at 09:26 PM
Canyon Palomar spriing
[Edited on 10-27-2004 by Neal Johns]
jide - 11-3-2004 at 12:52 PM
Hey John, are you back from canon El Palomar?
How was it? any pictures?