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Marc
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BOLA TO EL ARCO
Any info on PRESENT condition of this road. Driving a 4X4 Tundra. Mostly concerned with BOLA to El Progresso.
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Easy road... all good except a slow climb up the grade Between San Rafael (do stop and get a cold Pacifico from Pancho) and the El Arco/ PSFO road
(near El Progreso).
Photos in my January (New Years) Trip #1 report. Here is the grade. You may use 4WD briefly on it if you get tire spin, but otherwise all 2WD stuff.
There is a detour around a washout just before meeting the El Arco road.
Much of the road is like this!
In June (2017) I was on the El Arco-El Barril road. I don't think there was much weather that would have changed the L.A. Bay road in the past 5
months since I was on it. El Progreso and Rancho Escondido both appeared abandoned. El Barril and Piedra Blanca both advertised gas for sale, last
month. The El Barril gas guy was out fishing, however.
[Edited on 7-13-2017 by David K]
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Marc
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Thanks David, we are thinking of doing this in late October or early November. Hopefully the road will not suffer to much through the hurricane
season.
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During your time frame there will be people pre-running for the Baja 1000 race. Be careful. Pre-running will start around October 21 or the 28. Since
the race will finish in La Paz there could be pre-runners on the course at anytime between now and then as the course most likely will use the the
BOLA to EL Arco section.
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I drove to San Francisquito from BoLA in June in a ford 1 ton with a 8' cabover on it and never needed 4wd. A lot can happen between now and when you
go.
Off grid, 12-190 watt evergreen solar panels on solar trackers, 2-3648 stacked Outback inverters, 610ah LiFePo4 48v battery bank, FM 60 and MX60
Outback charge controllers, X-240 Outback transformer for 240v from inverters, 6500 watt Kubota diesel generator.
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Marc
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Quote: Originally posted by TMW  | | During your time frame there will be people pre-running for the Baja 1000 race. Be careful. Pre-running will start around October 21 or the 28. Since
the race will finish in La Paz there could be pre-runners on the course at anytime between now and then as the course most likely will use the the
BOLA to EL Arco section. |
Thanks, That was in the back of my mind. May reconsider the dates.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Marc | | Quote: Originally posted by TMW | | During your time frame there will be people pre-running for the Baja 1000 race. Be careful. Pre-running will start around October 21 or the 28. Since
the race will finish in La Paz there could be pre-runners on the course at anytime between now and then as the course most likely will use the the
BOLA to EL Arco section. |
Thanks, That was in the back of my mind. May reconsider the dates. |
it's a public road. The racers need to learn to share it and drive safely. They dont need to speed to pre-run it. Hell, they could probably get
pics from DK to see what it looks like 
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I have shared hundreds of miles of back roads with pre-runners on two different years. The first time was by accident, it was before I even knew
about BN, and had no clue that the race was going to use the route I had picked.
It wasn't a problem, in fact it added to the adventure! It was also fun chatting with some of them at places like Coco's Corner, B.O.L.A., and down
in La Paz.
I don't think I would want to be on the course during the race though!
[Edited on 7-13-2017 by AKgringo]
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SCORE recommends a pre-run speed of 25mph but racers will be racers and some like to see how fast they can run a section. When I'm on a race section I
keep my windows down and my am/fm radio off (not my race radio) so I can hear other vehicles better and watch for dust. I've been on many race courses
during pre-runs and never had a problem. But there have been people injured and killed especially bikers.
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I´ll be headed down the peninsula around that time too. When will we know the race course?
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Maps are published when pre-running is about to begin, ie. about a month before the race. The course can change, hurricanes can cause that or
complaints from racers about a section of the course. This being the 50th anniversary of the first 1000 (1967), there could be an earlier preview of
the course. It is going to be longer than the typical race.
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Usually the race map is posted in the SCORE booth at the Off Road Expo in Pomona at the Fairplex Sept 30th and Oct 1st this year.
[Edited on 7-14-2017 by TMW]
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Sorry for a mini-hijack, but for me TMW's reply to this post is still five hours in the future!
I checked my time zone setting, and it is correct. Anybody else see the wrong date/time ?
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | Everyone here can set the Nomad clock to their own time zone. Just click the user control panel above, right link. Then click Edit Profile. Remember
that most of the year many here are on Daylight Savings and we need the time zone just east of our normal one.
HOWEVER, THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE WRONG! LOL!
[Edited on 7-14-2017 by David K] |
This has been addressed now.
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Marc
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Are these postings set in GMT? Or in the navy ZULU time. I am posting this at 5:46 AM Pacific time.
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Thanks DK, I wondered why my time stamp was an hour off. It's reset to MT.
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That's odd. When I changed my time to MT it matched my Nomad time to my real time and when posted above DKs time changed to 12:11 and came up under my
post that thanked him. This post is back to the way it was using PT. Oh well. I'll leave it to the techies to figure out.
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There is a one hour difference for me between being logged in, or not!
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Any updates since the race, headed this way on my KLR in February. Thanks.
John
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I'll be going this route back to Bola in a few weeks, and will try to remember to update.. I'll be on my XR400
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