David K - 11-28-2005 at 01:32 PM
Before the boojum forest ended, we were treated to this pair which the second one seemed to me like a Christmas tree!
Continued from Part 2 at http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=14277
[Edited on 11-28-2005 by David K]
David K - 11-28-2005 at 01:38 PM
37 miles from Hwy. 1, at 1:00pm, we saw a place to pull over that looked nice to make a lunch (can you say turkey and ham sanwiches?).
Afterwards, we decided to scout around and noticed the dry creek by the road suddonly had a little running stream below where we parked... a natural
spring!
Baja Angel said she wanted to check out some interesting looking rocks across the stream, and I checked out some boulders on this side... They were
faint but I got excited when I saw them...
David K - 11-28-2005 at 01:40 PM
Before Baja Angel arrived at 'her' rock pile, I spotted a much better petroglyph boulder in the middle of where she was going! Man, was I excited...
David K - 11-28-2005 at 01:41 PM
There's Elizabeth (Baja Angel) looking and finding MORE petroglyphs!
David K - 11-28-2005 at 01:42 PM
more...
David K - 11-28-2005 at 01:43 PM
more...
David K - 11-28-2005 at 01:47 PM
This was great... We spent an hour and twenty minutes hiking around, looking for petros, and other interesting things.
I am not claiming this as a discovery, since the ranchers must know about it... probably others too since it is close to the road. But, it was
exciting for me to come across a site that I hadn't previously read about or was shown first by 'the great one', Neal Johns!
David K - 11-28-2005 at 01:51 PM
A couple miles past 'Petroglyph Park', the road forked... the correct fork was left, but Neal says God will get you if you don't take them all! So, to
the right we went and found some beautiful blue palms less than a mile away on the wrong road...
David K - 11-28-2005 at 01:54 PM
We arrived at abandoned Rancho El Cipres 43.4 miles from leaving Hwy. 1 (not counting the blue palm wrong road milage), 6.4 mi. from 'Petroglyph
Park'.
El Cipres Laundromat
David K - 11-28-2005 at 01:57 PM
It was 3:30pm and the sun was dropping, but the sky was clear of any clouds... a fantastic day! The road was pretty bad through here and the only
tracks were that of motorcycles... Erosion from last winter's rains made deep gullies we had to negociate...
jide - 11-28-2005 at 02:01 PM
cool find David! so many glyphs....looks like newspaper rock
David K - 11-28-2005 at 02:02 PM
Just as we emerged from the hills in the Arroyo El Socorro valley, we were treated to a sunset! Hwy. 1 was just 2 miles away, and Baja Cactus was 20
miles south.
Ed at Baja's Best B & B said he had lobster and would make them 'Italian style', preparing them himself... So, we were motivated to get back to El
Rosario for dinner!
footnote: It was great!
Continued in the final Part 4 (more Hugo Lopez Paintings)
David K - 11-28-2005 at 02:57 PM
Continued in Part 4 at http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=14282
Detailed Road Log below (milage, GPS, etc.)
Web page of trip at
http://community-2.webtv.net/vivabaja/1105/
[Edited on 2-20-2006 by David K]
David K - 12-1-2005 at 08:16 AM
Trip ROAD LOG
BAJA ALMANAC MAP 15
Leave Mex. 1 at Km. 103+, 28.5 mi. from El Rosario Pemex, Los Martires Restaurant... head north on graded road. 30?03.81', 115?20.87' (GPS map datum:
NAD27 Mexico)
Mi. 2.5 Fork, go left/west (sign for San Antonio)
Mi. 3.6 Sauzalito copper mine village ruins to left at 30?05.89', 115?21.76', the road is now going north and drops to the river.
Mi. 4.9 San Juan de Dios river crossing 30?06.83', 115?21.28'
Mi. 5.2 Cuesta La Vibora road forks to left, stay right 30?07.04', 115?21.33'
Mi. 5.4 San Juan de Dios & El Metate road forks to right, stay left. 30?07.22', 115?21.42'
Mi. 11.7 Los Martires Ranch road forks left, stay right.
Mi. 13.5 Los Martires/ Arroyo Grande river crossing. 30?12.37', 115?26.33'
Mi. 13.7 Los Martires ranch road in from left.
BAJA ALMANAC MAP 13
Road continues north, passing signed entrance road to San Antonio... cactus garden galore!
Mi. 21.3 FORK (just north of Arroyo El Portezuelo crossing): Right to El Datilar, San Miguel, Rancho Nuevo, go left (Pozo Nuevo) for this road log.
30?18.42', 115?24.98' elev. 1,608'
Mi. 26.1 Fork, go left. Recommend only off road vehicles beyond here... no more occupied ranches beyond this point.
Mi. 27.8 On a bulldozed switchback 30?22.26', 115?28.95'. Elev. at top of this grade is 2,600 ft.
Mi. 31.9 Take shortcut road to left 30?24.79', 115?29.21'
Mi. 32.6 Join old El Socorro to Rancho Nuevo/ La Suerte road. 30?25.18', 115?29.72' Seems to be rarely used, mostly motorcycle tracks from here on
down the mountain.
Mi. 33.2 road to right, continue ahead 30?24.97', 115?30.27'.
A second road will be seen going north soon at 30?24.28', 115?31.51'... Both probably go to 'El Agua Escondida', per the Baja Almanac.
Mi. 37.0 'Petroglyph Park'... natural spring in arroyo, petroglyphs on both sides. Largest on right at 30?24.188', 115?33.375' elev. 1,721'. The
Almanac shows an Arroyo El Moral crossing the road about this point.
Mi. 39.2 FORK: Right goes 0.9 mi. to blue palms, and beyond. Go LEFT for El Socorro on Hwy. 1. 30?23.58', 115?35.01'
Mi. 41.2 Road to south to EL CANUTO (per Almanac) 30?22.51', 115?36.24'
Mi. 43.4 EL CIPRES abandoned ranch, corral and well. 30?22.10', 115?37.98'
Mi. 49.4 FORK: most used road goes right to Nueva Odisea/ El Pabellon area on Mex. 1, this log stays on the road to the left, to El Socorro 30?21.56',
115?42.80'
Mi. 54.8 Bottom of side canyon, road in from left (east) to Tres Palmas 30?19.96', 115?46.82'
Mi. 54.9 road to right (north) to Nueva Odisea. Soon cross Arroyo El Socorro from north to south sides 30?19.94', 115?46.85'
Mi. 55.5 JCN. with road running along south side of Arroyo El Socorro, turn right/ west 30?19.66', 115?47.25'
Mi. 57.1 Mexico Hwy. 1 at El Socorro (Km. 24-25)... 20.0 miles north of El Rosario Pemex. 30?19.25', 115?48.77'