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Wild Baja -- Part Six El Desengano and Yubay
After the fox I am back on the dirt road heading for El Desengano.
I find it pretty easy. Some old shafts and cement slabs.
A few corners of adobe walls still stand and wait a minute, what is this?
Why is there a jar with money in it here?
Geocache like some have suggested, but with cash in it?
After walking around for a bit it is time to backtrack just a little and see if I can make it to Tinaja de Yubay.
Four wheel drive is helpful in a couple of spots. Soon a trail comes on the road where it looks like they recently ran a motorcycle race. The follow
the road for a couple of miles so it is slow going.
Works out because there is a young buck with velvet covered antlers. 2 Baja deer now.
Soon I drop down into the wash where I set up camp for the night and it is a cold, windy and foggy night.
I am up again with the dawn. After a quick breakfast of coffee and oatmeal I am off to see this water hole.
I end up walking up the wash about miles before turning around and heading out.
Here is what I see...
The first water hole, a triangle with 2 to 3 foot sides.
A little past that a small narrow water hole.
Then a short rock wall up on the north bank which I go check out.
       
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A large rock sitting so it appears to be a rock with lots of rock art in it.
Further up the wash another water hole.
At this point I turn around and head back down and shortly past the first water hole i am seeking shade. I find it near a large boulder with a u shape
opening.
It is a minute or so before i realize there is more to the insides then shade.
Someone drove a metal stake into the ground, drilled out some hard volcanic rock and placed it on the stake so it can spin.
CRAZY!
Then it is back to camp and the drive out.
On the way out a white calf runs along a parallel course to the jeep for a few hundred yards. if I would stop so would he, once I started going, so
would he. Once I backed up and he ran onto the road in front of me and stared at me until I started going forward again.
It was weird, I wanted to shout out, "Lassie, what is it? Does Billy need help?"
But then he veered off and disappeared into the brush.
       
PART ONE
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=83137
PART TWO
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=83138
PART THREE
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=83141
PART FOUR
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=83142
PART FIVE
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=83143
[Edited on 5-21-2016 by Fatboy]
[Edited on 5-22-2016 by Fatboy]
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David K
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Nice photo of the Yubay fig tree! The water does not look very drinkable! I was there in a dry year as well (July 2001), and it was low and lined with
bees keeping me from the water (not that I needed a drink like the many people here of the past)! Neal Johns came to Yubay a year and a half later
during a wet winter and the tinaja was over-flowing... such diversity from year to year!
July 2001 Yubay: http://www.vivabaja.com/van1/page5.html
February 2003 Yubay: http://www.vivabaja.com/neal2/page2.html (2 pages)
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BajaBlanca
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incredible caves
incredible art
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Great trip with great pictures, thanks.
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Maybe the rock mounted to swivel over the lower rock is some type of pulverizing, grinding tool for [ ? ]. The circular lower rock and smooth ground
out curved sides are particularly intriguing.
Rock art discovery is beautiful.
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Fatboy
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Quote: Originally posted by David K  | Nice photo of the Yubay fig tree! The water does not look very drinkable! I was there in a dry year as well (July 2001), and it was low and lined with
bees keeping me from the water (not that I needed a drink like the many people here of the past)! Neal Johns came to Yubay a year and a half later
during a wet winter and the tinaja was over-flowing... such diversity from year to year!
July 2001 Yubay: http://www.vivabaja.com/van1/page5.html
February 2003 Yubay: http://www.vivabaja.com/neal2/page2.html (2 pages)
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I wonder how reliable a source it is? And I am sure the cows are not helping any.
Wilderone, LarryC (I believe) mentioned that Herman Hill said he did it to break up some gold ore. It is odd though.
TMW & BajaBlanca - Thanks and it is also a pleasure finding rock art, that is one of the draws of southern Utah for me.
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David K
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Somewhere I have seen the Yubay arrastra (grinding wheel) intact. Neal Johns or Jack Swords photos, perhaps?
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Sure did David....the rock over the grinding arrastra was different when we were there. It had a finger hole or stick hole to use as a handle to turn
the grinding rock. There was a "window" in a rock wall that led to a view of another painting there too. Fig tree looks like it needs water. I
understand that tree is the most northern location for the Zalate or Ficus palmeri. Next person there needs to water it!
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Fatboy
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| Quote: Originally posted by Jack Swords | | Sure did David....the rock over the grinding arrastra was different when we were there. It had a finger hole or stick hole to use as a handle to turn
the grinding rock. There was a "window" in a rock wall that led to a view of another painting there too. Fig tree looks like it needs water. I
understand that tree is the most northern location for the Zalate or Ficus palmeri. Next person there needs to water it! |
The rock on the stake is a volcanic type rock and there is another one there that you can see in the background to the right in my picture, I wonder
if it was all one rock at one point and someone broke it off?
It also has a hole drilled into it.
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