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[*] posted on 3-13-2019 at 06:56 PM


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Ok for dirt bikes? That is part of my plan for the second week of April.
I rode it on a loaded down 690 Enduro and found it easier than the deep sand on Laguna del Diablo. You will get wet.
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[*] posted on 3-13-2019 at 07:25 PM


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Ok for dirt bikes? That is part of my plan for the second week of April.


It's a really easy ride on bikes. My kid did it when he was 11 or 12. That video showed an abnormal amount of water (it's rained so much this winter). Generally, there is a small fraction of that.








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[*] posted on 3-13-2019 at 07:46 PM


by the way, some of the water is warm





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[*] posted on 1-21-2020 at 11:37 AM


Thanks for the grat photos, David. We will be there a little later this year on a RZR run.
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Southbound, between Coco's Corner and Arroyo Calamajué (arroyo is located where the hills are in the distance, about 5 miles south)...


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At the edge of the arroyo, by the gold ore mill ruins, just before the road drops down into the arroyo...


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The remains of the short-lived Jesuit mission church (October 16, 1766-May 1767) located on the opposite side of the arroyo from the mill ruins. See the road dropping down to the arroyo across...


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Gold mill ruins as seen from the mission site...


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Mineral shelf just inside the canyon entrance, south from the mill and mission...


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The road drives right in the streambed for a few miles.
Deepest water in July 2012...


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Lot's of mineral coloring in the cliffs...


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Lone palm tree just out of water portion of the road...


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Once out of the canyon and heading to Hwy. 1 at El Crucero, we find these "dancing" boojum trees...


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[Edited on 3-11-2019 by David K]



Thanks for the great photos David, we will be going there on a RZR run a little later this Spring.




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[*] posted on 1-21-2020 at 12:04 PM


De nada, Udo.
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It would be nice to see you guys again!
Miss those surprise visits of years ago.
Once again, I live right off the 76, just further east, next to the 15.




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[*] posted on 1-21-2020 at 04:33 PM


We came north thru there a few weeks ago and while many places we traveled were wet, a lot of standing water to drive thru or around, Frog Canyon was no wetter or dryer than it has ever been that I have seen.



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[*] posted on 1-22-2020 at 01:14 AM


Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Why not... unless getting wet is a problem! You can pop out to Km. 251 or Km. 261. The canyon is also the route of El Camino Real... the Mission Raod from Loreto to San Diego to Monterey!



David, in this map, it looks like its possible to cross the mex1 and continue to the Pacific and then loop back via the 4x4 road that cuts through Laguna Isolote. Have you documented this route?




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[*] posted on 1-22-2020 at 10:32 AM


That looked like a fun run!



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[*] posted on 1-22-2020 at 10:42 AM


Quote: Originally posted by matthew_mangus  
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Why not... unless getting wet is a problem! You can pop out to Km. 251 or Km. 261. The canyon is also the route of El Camino Real... the Mission Raod from Loreto to San Diego to Monterey!



David, in this map, it looks like its possible to cross the mex1 and continue to the Pacific and then loop back via the 4x4 road that cuts through Laguna Isolote. Have you documented this route?


Yes. The road log (sample section Part 3 of the new road guide) is posted in the Nomad Road Conditions forum and the trip report (2017) is #4 in the Nomad Trip Reports forum. The road west from Laguna Chapala I did not get to, but Nomads Stuck Sucks and TMW have.




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