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Sandlefoot
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If an overloaded 18 wheeler can make it, your Highlander will be fine!!! The car can make it if the driver can!!!
Happy Trails
" Don't find fault, find a remedy; anyone can complain." Henry Ford
If you are not living on the edge...you are taking up to much space!
Just because it may not be a good idea does not mean it will not be fun!!!
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willardguy
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I'd take the exploder and leave the highlander home in the garage.
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StuckSucks
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You will be fine. I drove northbound through there Saturday and it was essentially the same as the video.
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David K
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If you need a road to be paved before driving it, perhaps Baja is not the best choice for your vacation?
Most roads are unpaved and most cars drive them. If it is rough, you drive slower. This fear of taking a Highlander sure is unwarranted. Ferraris and
big motorhomes are the kinds of vehicles that only need to be concerned about dirt road driving, in dry weather.
Enjoy Baja, everything works out if you are not in a rush.
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StuckSucks
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The guard shack cavity search along with modern, tourist-friendly facilities, means my Gonzaga days are limited.
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motoged
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omygod....sawdust and cement grit in the tacos  
Don't believe everything you think....
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JoelovesBaja
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Thank you guys.
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basautter
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Thanks for the update! I just started planning an early 2018 dirt bike trip, and was wondering about that section of road. Not much left for the
imagination except when they will be done! 
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Cliffy
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How many 4X4s never leave the asphalt in Orange Co. CA? Its always been amazing to me how many people fear dirt roads. Been that way since I first
went down in the early 70s. Some of the places the locals drove with normal everyday 1 wheel drive cars would blanch the face of many today.
Roads gets wet and we need active traction control, 4X4 drive, ABS brakes and FWL RADAR to close the throttle. YIKES how did we survive with
mechanical brakes on only 2 wheels? Now we need the car to parallel park itself because we can't do it!
Just go to a big boat launch ramp any weekend and see how many can't backup a trailer.
This video shows me I can make it with my 22 ft travel trailer with ease as long as I go at it in a reasonable manner.
One last item- many wonder/complain about when they are going to finish it but I think just the opposite. I'm impressed with how it is going
considering they are trying to build a "modern" highway a hundred miles out in the middle of no where, in the most inhospitable terrain imaginable. I
can't imagine working as a powder monkey or scoop driver out there in the middle of summer. I'm amazed its moving as well as it is.
I drove this road from Hwy 1 to Papa's in the early 70s in the middle of the night. A completely different experience than this "now" graded road.
You chose your position in life today by what YOU did yesterday
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mtgoat666
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Quote: Originally posted by Cliffy  | How many 4X4s never leave the asphalt in Orange Co. CA? Its always been amazing to me how many people fear dirt roads. Been that way since I first
went down in the early 70s. Some of the places the locals drove with normal everyday 1 wheel drive cars would blanch the face of many today.
Roads gets wet and we need active traction control, 4X4 drive, ABS brakes and FWL RADAR to close the throttle. YIKES how did we survive with
mechanical brakes on only 2 wheels? Now we need the car to parallel park itself because we can't do it!
Just go to a big boat launch ramp any weekend and see how many can't backup a trailer.
This video shows me I can make it with my 22 ft travel trailer with ease as long as I go at it in a reasonable manner.
One last item- many wonder/complain about when they are going to finish it but I think just the opposite. I'm impressed with how it is going
considering they are trying to build a "modern" highway a hundred miles out in the middle of no where, in the most inhospitable terrain imaginable. I
can't imagine working as a powder monkey or scoop driver out there in the middle of summer. I'm amazed its moving as well as it is.
I drove this road from Hwy 1 to Papa's in the early 70s in the middle of the night. A completely different experience than this "now" graded road.
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Cliffsy,
That was a good old-man-Luddite-rant.
I suspect you got a rotary dial phone in your house and you still use that old black and white TV you purchased back in 1972.
Now go eat your daily fiber shake, and get back to yelling at the clouds and screaming at the neighbor kids to stay off your lawn!
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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willardguy
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by Cliffy | How many 4X4s never leave the asphalt in Orange Co. CA? Its always been amazing to me how many people fear dirt roads. Been that way since I first
went down in the early 70s. Some of the places the locals drove with normal everyday 1 wheel drive cars would blanch the face of many today.
Roads gets wet and we need active traction control, 4X4 drive, ABS brakes and FWL RADAR to close the throttle. YIKES how did we survive with
mechanical brakes on only 2 wheels? Now we need the car to parallel park itself because we can't do it!
Just go to a big boat launch ramp any weekend and see how many can't backup a trailer.
This video shows me I can make it with my 22 ft travel trailer with ease as long as I go at it in a reasonable manner.
One last item- many wonder/complain about when they are going to finish it but I think just the opposite. I'm impressed with how it is going
considering they are trying to build a "modern" highway a hundred miles out in the middle of no where, in the most inhospitable terrain imaginable. I
can't imagine working as a powder monkey or scoop driver out there in the middle of summer. I'm amazed its moving as well as it is.
I drove this road from Hwy 1 to Papa's in the early 70s in the middle of the night. A completely different experience than this "now" graded road.
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Cliffsy,
That was a good old-man-Luddite-rant.
I suspect you got a rotary dial phone in your house and you still use that old black and white TV you purchased back in 1972.
Now go eat your daily fiber shake, and get back to yelling at the clouds and screaming at the neighbor kids to stay off your lawn!
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what a pathetic little man you are 
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thebajarunner
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| Quote: Originally posted by willardguy | | Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by Cliffy | How many 4X4s never leave the asphalt in Orange Co. CA? Its always been amazing to me how many people fear dirt roads. Been that way since I first
went down in the early 70s. Some of the places the locals drove with normal everyday 1 wheel drive cars would blanch the face of many today.
Roads gets wet and we need active traction control, 4X4 drive, ABS brakes and FWL RADAR to close the throttle. YIKES how did we survive with
mechanical brakes on only 2 wheels? Now we need the car to parallel park itself because we can't do it!
Just go to a big boat launch ramp any weekend and see how many can't backup a trailer.
This video shows me I can make it with my 22 ft travel trailer with ease as long as I go at it in a reasonable manner.
One last item- many wonder/complain about when they are going to finish it but I think just the opposite. I'm impressed with how it is going
considering they are trying to build a "modern" highway a hundred miles out in the middle of no where, in the most inhospitable terrain imaginable. I
can't imagine working as a powder monkey or scoop driver out there in the middle of summer. I'm amazed its moving as well as it is.
I drove this road from Hwy 1 to Papa's in the early 70s in the middle of the night. A completely different experience than this "now" graded road.
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Cliffsy,
That was a good old-man-Luddite-rant.
I suspect you got a rotary dial phone in your house and you still use that old black and white TV you purchased back in 1972.
Now go eat your daily fiber shake, and get back to yelling at the clouds and screaming at the neighbor kids to stay off your lawn!
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what a pathetic little man you are |
Cliffy, good post, what a creepy response you got....
I love that road!
Few months back my 20 year old F150 ate it up at 40-50 mph.
And in the really rocky places, you just slow down and don't kill your rig.
Great comment about "Orange County 4x4s.
Except for hard core Baja types I tell 4x4 buyers "If you are where you need four wheel drive, you are probably somewhere you should not be." 40+
years of pounding Baja I have never been there in a 4x4.... and yeah, that includes 12 years of racing the big ones...
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