Taco de Baja - 5-26-2014 at 12:11 PM
I found some interesting notes on Mission Santa Maria I thought I'd share. I will post in several links to break them up a bit.
These are either from my dad, or Bud Bernhard with whom my father was good friends. I was on all of the trips mentioned by my dad ('73, '77, and '82)
and the hike into the Mission in 1973 as a kid of 7 is one of my earliest recollections of a Baja trip I can put to a specific place. This hike was
sponsored by the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club. Although I don't recall all the people who went, it is likely that BarryA's Aunt was there, as
she was along on many of the Sierra Club trips.
[Edited on 5-26-2014 by Taco de Baja]
Taco de Baja - 5-26-2014 at 12:13 PM
More notes:
Taco de Baja - 5-26-2014 at 12:15 PM
And notes to the campers by Bud for the trip:
David K - 5-26-2014 at 12:52 PM
Thank you for sharing these!!! 
Barry A. - 5-26-2014 at 01:36 PM
Great stuff, Taco.
I don't recall my aunt (Becky McSheehy) speaking of any trip into the Mission Santa Maria from Santa Inez or Gonzaga, but I was away at School in the
East, and in Montana & Utah at the time of the trips and may have not been aware. I have all her carefully collected maps, and documentation of
trips, and see no reference to any trip to the Mission Santa Maria, so I don't think she made that trip. She seldom did any actual back-packing, but
sometimes. She did do a multi-day trip with Bud Bernhard, NOMAD "Vince", and others when they conquered Picacho del Diablo way back when.
Barry