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BIG sand - Where in Baja is this sand pile?

Curt63 - 10-2-2011 at 06:25 PM

I just got back from riding at Glamis and I'm all fired up!

I took this video this morning. Its poor quality, but you get the picture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzFaqxvRC6o

Where else can you ride the BIG sand in Baja? Show pics if you got em!

Big Baja sand

BajaWarrior - 10-3-2011 at 04:27 AM

There is a nice pile of sand at San Antonio del Mar (Colonet) that has some steep hills on the south end.

bajaandy - 10-3-2011 at 07:31 AM

Curt, you've already been there... Seven Sisters. That's all I'm saying. (Wouldn't want to incur the wrath of the Sacred Saints of the Seven Sisters!)

(On Edit: Not sayin that's where your picture was taken... could have been San Antonio Del Mar. Or maybe down at San Quintin. Or maybe even south of El Socorro. Dunes at all of those places.)

[Edited on 10-3-2011 by bajaandy]

durrelllrobert - 10-3-2011 at 08:52 AM

Big dunes south of Rosarito, across MX 1 from Rancho Descanso development and overlooking Pacific (can't get that at Glamis) :tumble:

[Edited on 10-3-2011 by durrelllrobert]

Curt63 - 10-3-2011 at 09:10 AM

Good suggestions. I rode San Antonio Del Mar last Oct and I'll be there again in a few weeks.

The Cantamar dunes are mixed for me. I met my wife camping there and I dislocated my shoulder on an ATC.

Seven Sisters....hmmmmm?......... processing

Hint: the big Baja sand is several miles from the Pacific. I bet Russ knows

David K - 10-3-2011 at 09:37 AM

Just north of the Guerrero Negro airport are the Sarafan Sand Dunes... beautiful! I went in there in 1985...

Read about it in Jim Hunter's 1977 guidebook 'Offbeat Baja'. Here is the start of his directions: Go 2.4 miles north of the Eagle Monumant and take the road west...

Bob H - 10-3-2011 at 11:04 AM

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Originally posted by David K
Just north of the Guerrero Negro airport are the Sarafan Sand Dunes... beautiful! I went in there in 1985...

Read about it in Jim Hunter's 1977 guidebook 'Offbeat Baja'. Here is the start of his directions: Go 2.4 miles north of the Eagle Monumant and take the road west...

I googled Sarafan and the only thing I could find was this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarafan

rts551 - 10-3-2011 at 11:25 AM

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Sorry David. Your directions don't get you to this sand. :lol:

rts551 - 10-3-2011 at 11:37 AM

Another shot o this area. way bigger than GN.

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Curt63 - 10-3-2011 at 11:43 AM

To get there, you've got to cross this vast salt flat.

You may recognize one active and one former Nomad.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsi6iiUUhJ1qen5pzo1_500.jp...

rts551 - 10-3-2011 at 11:46 AM

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Originally posted by Curt63
To get there, you've got to cross this vast salt flat.

You may recognize one active and one former Nomad.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsi6iiUUhJ1qen5pzo1_500.jp...

Lets take David out there in his Toy!

Curt63 - 10-3-2011 at 01:47 PM

The salt flats are tough on a bike if you break through the crust.

This guy is a solid rider

Sorry. I'll fix the link soon

[Edited on 10-4-2011 by Curt63]

woody with a view - 10-3-2011 at 05:05 PM

what's your password?

rts551 - 10-3-2011 at 07:08 PM

looks like you stumped them Curt, at least for a while~

David K - 10-3-2011 at 07:16 PM

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Originally posted by rts551

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Sorry David. Your directions don't get you to this sand. :lol:

Sorry Ralph, but agian you failed reading 101: "Here is the start of his directions: Go 2.4 miles ..." HIS being the key word.

Anyone can see the dunes and road on Google Earth and copy the GPS or figure the miles.

David K - 10-3-2011 at 07:19 PM

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Originally posted by Bob H

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I googled Sarafan and the only thing I could find was this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarafan

I didn't name them... it is what Jim Hunter called them... and what made me go check them out in July, 1985. I found them with Jim Hunter's directions, even though Ralph says they are wrong... Maybe after nearly 30 years, another road is a shorter way in?

rts551 - 10-3-2011 at 07:27 PM

What are you talking about? Curt asked where this was? your answer is wrong. You just couldn't figure that part out could you? Reading 101 DK.. This sand refers to the subject of the post!

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Originally posted by David K

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Originally posted by rts551

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Sorry David. Your directions don't get you to this sand. :lol:

[Edited on 10-4-2011 by rts551]

rts551 - 10-3-2011 at 07:29 PM

David my comment was directed at you having the wrong answer..

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Originally posted by David K

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Originally posted by Bob H

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I googled Sarafan and the only thing I could find was this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarafan

David K - 10-3-2011 at 07:31 PM

I don't know what you are talking about... I am talking about the sand dune field just north of the Guerrero Negro Airport and a bit south of Villa Jesus Maria... to the west of Mex. 1.

I then mentioned how I heard about them... in Jim Hunter's 1977 book... and I gave the location of the access road from Jim Hunter's book. Curt is a big boy, if I could find it with Jim's poor directions, then he can as well...

Ateo - 10-4-2011 at 08:07 AM

Just south of Datil is a large swathe of sand.

Curt63 - 10-4-2011 at 11:15 AM

Russ?

If I remember correctly, you tipped over your Ranger or ATV?? out in this area.

Curt63 - 10-4-2011 at 11:54 AM

Cant believe I stumped the board.

The big sand dunes in the picture are between Campo Rene and Punta Bromaugh about 3 - 5 miles inland. These dunes can be seen from a long distance and look really out of place for Baja.

Im not sure about the mileage, but thats a long distance over a vast salt flat.

Be very careful in this area, the only thing out there is an Abreojos Coop Vigilancia shack on the beach.

These salt flats are very dangerous depending on recent high tides. They might look dry, but they could be slippery and snotty under a thin dry crust.

Four wheel drives only go 4 feet further and 4 inches deeper. All 4 wheels will spin.

Map

Jim Hunter was right...

David K - 10-4-2011 at 05:09 PM

The sand dunes at the end of the access road.

The road from Hwy. 1 to the sand dunes.

The highway from the Eagle Monument to the dune access road measures 2.5 miles on Google. Now, if the odometer was set to 0 at the top end of the traffic circle, 2.4 miles would be correct... this is what Jim Hunter published in 1977. There are other roads to the dunes, but this is right where Jim Hunter said it would be, and where I drove in many years ago. Note the airport between the two points.

[Edited on 12-5-2016 by David K]