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Whale-ista
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Status of road from Hwy 1/San Ignacio to lagoon?
Can someone provide a status report on the road conditions out to San Ignacio lagoon?
Last spring they had completed about 30 miles of the approx. 40 to the first group of houses. Have they managed to pave the area thru the salt flats?
(I recall it was an engineering headache) Or is it still a rough final push over the final 10 miles or so?
Any current reports appreciated.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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Tomas Tierra
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Don't have a first hand report from very recently... But, from what I understand the levy roads over the salt ponds were wiped out from summer
storms.. The go around was somewhere near San Zacarias (church, small store, big shad tree, "Reye" the proprietor is a great guy), then returned to
the upper North road near the whale camps.. This was from about four weeks ago..
I sure hope that is not the case now.. It will certainly cut down on the whale business for some truly great Baja Californians...
Looking forward to up to date info... Almost time to load up!
TT
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degoma
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Road's good. Sorry, trouble posting..don't know why
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degoma
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temporary repairs were made to the levy--slow going
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Tomas Tierra
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I like it when people yell good news!
TT
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rufflife
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Status of road from town of San Ignacio to San Ignacio Lagoon
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TMW
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In November last year the pavement was about 25 miles from town. Then OK graded road the rest of the way with two places where it was single lane
across the mud flats. They were maybe 1/4 mile sections give or take. The first did not have any pull overs for passing oncoming traffic. The second
one is a bit longer and it had pull overs. So look ahead at the two sections and it's probably a good ideal to have your headlights on too.
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mtgoat666
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drove last month. road is about same as usual. paved from town to edge of mudflats. mudflat road is usual hummocky surface. unpaved road past the
mudflats is same old washboard.
hurricane left some interesting changes in low points, but road repairs have road back to usual condition
dont worry, be happy
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David K
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Could someone press their trip odometer to zero at the mission/plaza and then note the mileage at the end of pavement and at the lagoon camp. Thank
you!
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mtgoat666
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dont worry, dk, they are pretty good about plowing the lagoon road within an hour of snowfall. you can leave your chains at home.
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rts551
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Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  |
dont worry, dk, they are pretty good about plowing the lagoon road within an hour of snowfall. you can leave your chains at home.
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He wants snow so he can use his A$$TRAC and do some more posting abut it. Same with the mileage. needs to update his posts on road conditions for
roads its been ages he has been on.
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mtgoat666
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well, he does say volcanoes and liberals are causing world to get colder, maybe it will snow!
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by rts551 | | Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 |
dont worry, dk, they are pretty good about plowing the lagoon road within an hour of snowfall. you can leave your chains at home.
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He wants snow so he can use his A$$TRAC and do some more posting abut it. Same with the mileage. needs to update his posts on road conditions for
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I have never been to San Ignacio Lagoon. The reason for the mileage request is for the benefit of EVERYONE. The one simple piece of data that seems
hard to find, is the mileage to where the pavement ends from either end. That is a slow project seems a reasonable request, as it is changing, like
the highway south of Puertecitos.
A-TRAC is a traction system that only works in Low Range 4WD... it's use is highly limited to the most extreme trails or conditions. There is no
reason to discuss traction systems on paved or graded roads.
[Edited on 2-5-2015 by David K]
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MMc
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What does the mileage matter? If your driving out to the lagoon you'll know it when you get there. It's pretty hard to get lost going out there. The
better question is what kind of shape is the road in, which is what was asked.
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Bajahowodd
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Isn't this supposed to be the first leg of a paved highway down the West side to Ciudad Insurgentes?
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rufflife
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Have been trying to post a road report, but must be doing something wrong. It keeps telling me I have not entered a message.
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rufflife
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Road report from the town of San Ignacio to San Ignacio Lagoon
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David K
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As mentioned, the new Nomad software will not allow any accent marks, Spanish letters, degree symbols, or pasting from Word if there are any
quotations as well...
This is supposed to be all fixed... someday...
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rufflife
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Ah, thanks for the heads-up! I have not been visiting Nomad lately and must have missed the part about not being able to paste. I shall sit down and
type out the info...
Thank you!
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David K
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That was the long range plan, but reported to be halted by businesses in Santa Rosalia, Mulege, and Loreto since all traffic going south of those
places would stay on the Pacific side of the mountains and avoid thiose towns along with the two big grades, and a hundred extra miles of driving.
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