Has anyone been to Tres Pozos (well). I've seen it on maps and SCORE calls the area near it by the name but I've never been to it.
I think we were headed that direction last year but the road down the wash had completely disappeared and some of us were getting low on fuel so we
turned back.
Ken made friends with the dirt farmers at Ejido Saldaņa on a previous Pole Line tour... so he wanted to go that way again. Saldaņa is very near Tres
Pozos if not the same place.
Let me do a map search on Tres Pozos...
in 1919:
in 1930:
in 1962:
In 1971:
Doing a map overlay with Google Earth, I pinned Ejido Saldaņa (as well as the wells in Arroyo Grande feeding the gold mine and La Ventana on Hwy. 5).
The scale bar on the lower left can be used to gauge the distance between Saldaņa and Tres Pozos.
When I draw the 3.1 mile line from Ejido Saldaņa to Tres Pozos (where the 1971 Geology map places it) and remove the overlay of the 1971 from Google
Earth, this is where the line goes...
Now, in comparing the true location of the Pole Line Road (as seen on Google Earth) with the placement of it on the 1971 map, the map is approx 1/4 to
1/2 mile off.
EDIT: Have a look at 31°49.708', -115°18.625' The debris may indicate the ruins of Tres Pozos?
[Edited on 8-10-2016 by David K]
Tres Pozos Found???
David K - 8-9-2016 at 05:20 PM
David K - 8-9-2016 at 05:22 PM
TMW - 8-9-2016 at 05:39 PM
[Edited on 8-10-2016 by BajaNomad]TMW - 8-9-2016 at 05:42 PM
[Edited on 8-10-2016 by BajaNomad]David K - 8-9-2016 at 05:58 PM
Go take some pictures on the ground there Tom!TMW - 8-9-2016 at 06:10 PM
I will when the weather is cooler. I'm thinking a loop to see the Kurt Caselli site near Independencia. Then to the Ox memorial at the north end of
Diablo dry lake and head up to Tres Pozos. I have not been to any of them.TMW - 8-9-2016 at 06:20 PM
Hows this DK.
David K - 8-10-2016 at 07:02 AM
Looks good Tom! Doug resized the earlier ones that were too big for Nomad (over 800 pixels wide).chuckie - 8-10-2016 at 08:20 AM
We usedto pit at Trez Pozos for the 500... Believe we came in from Hiway 3 near El Chinero....long time ago....fuzzy memory..TMW - 8-10-2016 at 10:48 AM
SCORE has always called the jct. where the three blue lines meet Tres Pozos. The main access road was from Hwy 5 at KM87.
I think back in the early 90s about the time SCORE returned to running the San Felipe 250 race someone planted several palm trees on the east side of
Hwy 5 at KM87 in the sand dunes. The trees lasted a few years and then died off. Score called the area south of Tres Pozos the Oasis and it was a main
pit area for the SF250 race. I always thought it funny to call it the Oasis when the trees were across from the Tres Pozos access.
