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Mission Impossible Trail in June 2016 issue of JP Magazine
I couldn't believe seeing the miniature blue fan palm in the background!
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4x4abc
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what are you smoking?
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Ken Cooke
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Real good stuff.lol
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I see elephant trees... ?
I guess I will try and find that issue.
Thanks!
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Passenger side fender - kinda blurry.
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Ken Cooke
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There has been some inquiries about running this challenging 4wd trail from Hwy1 to Hwy5. It has been done! Rich T has the photographs to prove it.
Only for battle-tested Jeeps with 35" tires or better.
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Quote: Originally posted by Ken Cooke  | | There has been some inquiries about running this challenging 4wd trail from Hwy1 to Hwy5. It has been done! Rich T has the photographs to prove it.
Only for battle-tested Jeeps with 35" tires or better. |
Is this La Turquesa Canyon? Squarecicle did that.
Details please.
Santa Maria Canyon trail or El Camino Real is typically foot or hoof only, with a rare m/c and side by sides on ECR.
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The above photo is Widowmaker hill. There has been some talk on Talk Baja about taking Mission Impossible from the Palm Oasis downhill to Hwy 5.
Rich T. made it down in his little CJ-5 pulling his travel trailer. He posted photos, too!
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There is no path in the canyon for any vehicle. It may have been a palm area closer to Hwy. 5. So, which palm oasis is critical to discussion of any
crossover 4x4 route. It just isn't a physical possibility via Mission Santa Maria to Hwy. 5. Bulldozer and dynamite abandoned that route in the 1970s
at the edge of the 1,000' cliff down to the oasis.
If some other route other than or including La Turquesa was made, I am all ears!
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4x4abc
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show us the pictures, Ken - otherwise it did not happen
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AKgringo
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Well the photo was there a couple of hours ago.....but it got photo-bucketed!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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David K
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Hi AK, the opening photo is there... we have found a cure for the Photobucket issues if you use Chrome or Firefox.
See the post from Jaybo: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=88714
Happy Sunday to you!
The photo is on the Widowmaker which is between the mission and Hwy. 1, not the other side of the mission toward Hwy. 5. That road is passable only
for 2 miles or less, depending on your vehicle and skill.
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del mar
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im a little lost....has anyone here driven santa maria down to highway 5?
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4x4abc
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that's what Ken claims
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Harald have you bird dogged it?
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David K
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He has hiked it, I hiked 2/3 of it and flew over it by plane... and often on Google Earth. It is a big, boulder-filled canyon. The Camino Real trail
is along the north ridge and the upper sides of the canyon.
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I cant see it anywhere more detail where it is please
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sat images from all providers are not very good
the trail has a pretty forgiving elevation profile - no steep drops or climbs
most of the way there is enough room to drive a 4x4 (if you do some tree clipping and boulder rolling)
but there are several narrow spots just wide enough for a cow
I have played with the idea of getting a 4x4 through - much like Arturo Gross wanted to drive a dozer through
however, I decided it to be a bad idea to trample a virgin section of the Camino Real
There have been government plans to connect Catavina with Gonzaga Bay in the past through the same corridor. Good that they followed the dirt highway
to Laguna Chapala.
We need to keep Baja as wild as we can.
Bad enough that they now bus hiking groups to the Santa Maria Oasis Pool.
[Edited on 1-29-2018 by 4x4abc]
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157080335287281&am...
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great video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EL-eg5C4Uk
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