jim janet - 10-26-2004 at 10:08 PM
exploring Baja
jim janet - 10-26-2004 at 10:10 PM
Sorry I had a long story and it got lost will try again tomorrow
Where is the mammoth?
jim janet - 10-27-2004 at 08:17 PM
This was my first adventure in Baja. My son was finishing his degree at the U of A and was asked to be part of a dig in the dry lake called Chapalla.
Being a good son he asked his parents and girlfriend if they would like to help, read, cook, wash dishes and dig latrines. We like fools said
Great.It was the end of Oct., the dry lake wasn't, it was cold and windy. After three weeks some locals came to visit our camp site. They told an
amazing story. During the last rains a rancher had discovered mammoth bones in his creek bed.They wanted to have our experts check them out. The van
we were driving would not carry everyone who wanted to go so it was decided that eight of us could squeze in. I was in the back and lost track of our
exact movements. We did go north to around Marmol and found a ranch where a rancher showed us the bones. There the were two tusks, a skull, and teeth
in the creek. We had a Mexican archeoligical student with us who said he would report it to the university in Ensenada. In the excitement on the way
back to camp no one noticed which road or driveway was the correct one. So does anyone else know about the mammoth around Marmol?
David K - 10-27-2004 at 09:50 PM
Your kidding right?
No GPS with an archeology dig? Only one vehicle?
You were on Laguna Chapala for three weeks? What were you looking for there?
El Marmol is a long ways north of Chapala. How about pulling out the AAA map or Baja Almanac and retracing your trip, mentally.
Did you go past Catavina before leaving the highway? There is one signed graded road into El Marmol, 15kms. The other road in is a tough 4WD trail to
the south from Marmol.
Was your dig on Chapala so well known to the locals at the restaurant, word somehow spread to that rancher with the mammoth?
I guess if 8+ foreignors were living and digging on Chapala for 3 weeks, tha would get out!
Hope we can help you figure out where you were!
[Edited on 10-28-2004 by David K]
Jim Janet
jrbaja - 10-27-2004 at 09:55 PM
Now you've gone and done it. The good part is, next time you go, you will probably be able to order a Big Mac with a supersize fries when you get
there!
jim janet - 10-28-2004 at 07:43 AM
No Kidding,There were 12 of us in the middle of Chapalla for a month and a half,We got to know Egune and his family real well Iwill post the findings
of our digs in the next few days
David K - 10-28-2004 at 08:08 AM
OK, thanks...
(really JR, you do need to relax )
bajalera - 10-29-2004 at 02:33 PM
JJ, where did you camp at Chapala? Maybe at a stand of mesquites about a mile beyond the old Grosso ranch?
bajalera
Oh no
Bruce R Leech - 10-29-2004 at 04:11 PM
now Waite I'm lost do we turn before or after the Berger King?
Bruce R Leech Mulege Baja
[Edited on 10-30-2004 by Bruce R Leech]