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David K
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'The squarecircle' stands in front of the awesome English Ford!
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TW and BJ walk back to TW's truck which was about 1/3 of the way toward's the grade from the turquoise mine on the newly re-opened 'La Turquesa Road'!
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Heading up the long Turquesa grade over marble slippery, sharp stones... Very tough on tires Roy says... The squarecircle uses 33" Nitto Grabbers on
his Land Rover.
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The climb is no easy task, as the sun slips behind the mountain... The bottom half was pretty bad... much better was the upper half...
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The top of the grade is finally reached!
Soon after finishing their celebration beer, TW and his friend BJ arrived, having driven the long way around, via Coco's, Chapala, and Hwy. 1 at Km.
213 1/2... to see if Roy and Richard made it to the top of the grade.
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The 4.6 miles from the top of the grade to Hwy. 1 is pretty easy after climbing the grade!
Winston the Land Rover with Roy and Richard must be the FIRST four wheeled vehicle to climb UP the La Turquesa Grade (aka Kacey's XR Ride or Coco's
Shortcut) since the road washed out who knows how long ago!
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The route on the Baja Topo Atlas
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David K
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On the AAA map, here is the location of the La Turquesa Road... It cuts 20 miles off the drive from Hwy. 1 to Gonzaga Bay... but it may be awhile
before it is a quicker drive!
Thanks Roy for driving up here to get the photos onto Nomad so quickly!
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Hey Old Roy,
You did good! Sorry I was several hundred miles away in Utah or I would have been moving rocks for you.
Thanks for helping with the pics, DK.
Young Neal
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Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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Good job you two. See ya both Saturday.
"Mankind will not be judged by their faults, but by the direction of their lives." Leo Giovinetti
See you in Baja
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David K
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You are welcome...
Roy really is a good Nomad... Organizing and motivating for this project... then driving nearly 50 miles to my house last night to get the photos
online ASAP!
Roy had over 40 photos, and I picked the ones that best showed the road being conquered... I may get more on Nomad from is trip... later!
Perhaps see you Saturday Will? Not sure about El Cajon at 10 am, but we may get there not long after.
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I just did a calculation of how long the wash is from the green pools to where the hill is coming out of the wash and it's 2 miles. From where we
camped it was maybe 1.5 miles. Below is a web site to calculate distance using longitude and latitude.
http://www.airaya.com/support/ai108_latlong.asp
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David K
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That's a great site Tom... Thanks!!
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This looks like a blast...I know of several Rubicons that are itching for a short trek into Baja this summer. Gas prices nearly half of the U.S., the
desert too hot for any serious fun...Hmmm. San Felipe & La Turquesa in July anyone???
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If there is a El Rosario Festival in July again this year, that's the place to start... then we are heading to the warm Sea of Cortez (and not that
cold Pacific 7 Sisters place we went last July)!
Roy wants to go to Los Corrales and beyond (south of El Barril) to the 28º parallel area with some serious off road vehicles...
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Ken Cooke
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| Quote: | Originally posted by TW
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So, the thread is being resurrected?
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David K
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To refresh your memory perhaps?
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Ken I'm trying to get you interested in it again. Remember the saying "out of sight out of mind". I'm going to check out parts of it next Thursday and
Friday. If I can get past the first road block S section I think my Tacoma could make it. Maybe an Ad deal with Toyota. "Toughest truck in the world,
it beats the Baja from mining fields and arroyos to rock covered mountains". Just a thought. They might not buy it since my truck is a 2004. But DKs
could be passed as a new one.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by TW
Ken I'm trying to get you interested in it again. Remember the saying "out of sight out of mind". I'm going to check out parts of it next Thursday and
Friday. If I can get past the first road block S section I think my Tacoma could make it. Maybe an Ad deal with Toyota. "Toughest truck in the world,
it beats the Baja from mining fields and arroyos to rock covered mountains". Just a thought. They might not buy it since my truck is a 2004. But DKs
could be passed as a new one. |
Sounds great Tom... and my truck is equally fun in the snow, too! (last Saturday near Pine Valley)...
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