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bajajoaquin
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Baja Divide Trail
Is there any information out there about the Baja Divide Trail? I have the new Benchmark atlas and saw it there. I did a search here and just found a
reference to it in a thread about a bicycle vid crossing it.
If someone can point me in the right direction that would be great. Or, if there isn’t a good place already, maybe this thread can be a place for
it!
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advrider
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Just Google Baja divide and it will take you to the sight. They have shareable GPS track of the whole route, we ride a lot of it on motos. Always have
extra water and snacks for these hardcore soles.
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windgrrl
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Ryan van Duzer video “Bike-packing the Baja Divide”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb-xF5rypkE
Baja Divide
https://bajadivide.com/
Enjoy!
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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bajajoaquin
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Lol. I never thought to simply Google it! Thanks!
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I love those brand new inventions - Google!
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I'm all for googling but it's nice when you can come to a place like this and help sort through a sea of information.
This is the main site -
https://bajadivide.com/
Another good one -
https://bikepacking.com/routes/baja-divide/
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bajajoaquin
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I’m just so used to googling remote places in Baja and getting results for Costa Rica or Mainland that I stopped doing it.
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I stumbled across the site a few years ago Googling other Baja stuff. I had seen the bikes a few times but never realized they were using the same
route more often then not. Read up on the fastest known time challenge, crazy.
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I have run into bikepackers on the Divide route quite a few times over the last few years, and many of them are European visitors.
I have a standing offer to my son in Anchorage to drive the "SAG wagon" if he and a couple of friends want to meet me in Baja. One of his friends is
Lael Wilcox, who had the fastest time for the route for a couple of years.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
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John Harper
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The Google machine is awesome, especially when connected to the internets.
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Met a Canadian couple riding bikes on the Baja Divide route, in August, at Mission San Luis Gonzaga... They very much appreciated the cold bottles of
water I gave them the two days I crossed their path between there and San Evaristo. We are now Facebook friends and their trip went all over Mainland
Mexico, after Baja.
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Quote: Originally posted by David K  | | Met a Canadian couple riding bikes on the Baja Divide route, in August, at Mission San Luis Gonzaga... They very much appreciated the cold bottles of
water I gave them the two days I crossed their path between there and San Evaristo. We are now Facebook friends and their trip went all over Mainland
Mexico, after Baja. |
That's almost suicidal to do it in August.
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I ride parts of this route on moto have seen real nice people. Hiking and bicycles many not prepared to handle this route . Have had to double out
many on moto . Bike broken or they have to push in too far. Hikers out of water had to give them our water . Then go back and check on them . All
super cool and happy for the help.
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I picked up a young woman with a broken bike near San Evaristo last year. She was riding solo at the time, but was going to meet up with someone in
La Paz, so I gave her a ride to town.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
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Part of it south of Erindira uses part of the race course with 4 ft whoops and lots of rocks. Usually see them pushing the bicycles thru that part.
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The trail also heads east toward Mulege using the Arroyo San Raymundo. I encountered a couple on that section that was not enjoying the many water
crossings with large, slick cobbles paving the drainage!
By the way, if you check the Elimaps Baja map (sold at Oxxo), it shows the arroyo as a highway. Don't believe it!
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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| Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo | The trail also heads east toward Mulege using the Arroyo San Raymundo. I encountered a couple on that section that was not enjoying the many water
crossings with large, slick cobbles paving the drainage!
By the way, if you check the Elimaps Baja map (sold at Oxxo), it shows the arroyo as a highway. Don't believe it!
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I am rarely impressed by maps produced in Mexico. It seems accuracy is not high on their list.
Get the Benchmark Road & Recreation Atlas, in 2021, at least for the latest road map. All maps have errors or get outdated, so if you know of any
submit your findings for Benchmark's next edition. This is a company that wants to have a good product.
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AKgringo
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David, I bought two! One for the road, and one as a spare when I wind up destroying the road atlas.
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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Good for you!
In 2009, when the last Baja Almanac was published, I bought three... one for the truck, one for the office, and one to sell on eBay when the price
reached $900! LOL
Those Benchmark guys ruined my retirement plan! LOL 
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Is the trail ok for vehicles too? 4x4... What a great trip
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