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Anyone have experience looking around this area?

pjpvi - 10-5-2021 at 09:21 AM

Can see a few tracks on GE and thinking it may make for some good exploring. Has anyone poked around the area in yellow in the photo (N / NW of BLA)? Anything you can share if you have?

Thanks!

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David K - 10-5-2021 at 09:48 AM

Once... spent 2+ days in there. Camped near Bahía Guadalupe and at Punta Candelero. Many years ago. Many others have been in there.

Roads are on my maps and the new Baja Atlas from Benchmark.

Road is at Km. 38. 13.5 miles north is a T junction. To the right is Bahía Guadalupe in 9.8 more miles. To the left is Punta Candelero in 19.6 miles from the junction. A colorful canyon is driven in getting to Candelero.



David K - 10-5-2021 at 10:01 AM

This was the area of interest to Erle Stanley Gardner in his 1961 book, Hovering Over Baja. He wanted to get to the palms he saw in the canyons below.



4x4abc - 10-5-2021 at 11:50 AM

I have done all the trails in the area
easy - beautiful - great beaches
however, the northern most beach is rocky
Bahia Guadalupe and Playa Alcatraz are great
if you can't find a track/road - make your own

the crossing over to arroyo La Botica is still a challenge
but has been done by several explorers now
well defined tracks on sat

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pjpvi - 10-5-2021 at 01:36 PM

Thanks for the replies! I can't wait to get back down there and start exploring new areas to me.

bajatrailrider - 10-5-2021 at 02:18 PM

I have dirt biked there don't know what to say . Great area to explore

David K - 10-5-2021 at 02:27 PM

Remember or Fat Tire Bicycle Nomad who explored both ends of getting into Arroyo Salsipuedes? Mark_BC: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=70746

Being Canadian, Covid has kept him in the Great White North instead of exploring Baja the past two years!

edm1 - 10-7-2021 at 10:33 AM

David, it's been awhile since I posted here but I couldn't help but remembering BdLA, Yubay and Neal Johns. We explored the area in our oversized (both Neal's camper and my motorhome) vehicles but never got to the beach.

Anyway, I see Neal's last post was 2014; has anyone heard from him?

Art
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Once... spent 2+ days in there. Camped near Bahía Guadalupe and at Punta Candelero. Many years ago. Many others have been in there.

Roads are on my maps and the new Baja Atlas from Benchmark.

Road is at Km. 38. 13.5 miles north is a T junction. To the right is Bahía Guadalupe in 9.8 more miles. To the left is Punta Candelero in 19.6 miles from the junction. A colorful canyon is driven in getting to Candelero.





[Edited on 10-7-2021 by edm1]

David K - 10-7-2021 at 12:18 PM

Quote: Originally posted by edm1  
David, it's been awhile since I posted here but I couldn't help but remembering BdLA, Yubay and Neal Johns. We explored the area in our oversized (both Neal's camper and my motorhome) vehicles but never got to the beach.

Anyway, I see Neal's last post was 2014; has anyone heard from him?

Art


Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Once... spent 2+ days in there. Camped near Bahía Guadalupe and at Punta Candelero. Many years ago. Many others have been in there.

Roads are on my maps and the new Baja Atlas from Benchmark.

Road is at Km. 38. 13.5 miles north is a T junction. To the right is Bahía Guadalupe in 9.8 more miles. To the left is Punta Candelero in 19.6 miles from the junction. A colorful canyon is driven in getting to Candelero.




[Edited on 10-7-2021 by edm1]


Hello Art... we were just talking about you (and with photos) here: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=96671 (you can reply about the dual tire set-up you employ and tire pressure question, too).

I am saddened to report that the great desert explorer and aridologist, Neal Johns, passed away in December 2019. We went to his memorial the following February (a month before Covid may have prevented that gathering).
Neal's last post was actually in 2016: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=72871&pag...

Here is the post of his passing and the memorial photos: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=93792



[Edited on 10-7-2021 by David K]

edm1 - 10-7-2021 at 12:52 PM

thanks for the response.

I am very sorry having missed to pay my last respects for John. He was very kind to keep me company for an extended time during a time my motorhome had serious mechanical problems in Baja. In another life, I hope.

I'll be sure to read through the thread you provided and respond.
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Quote: Originally posted by edm1  
David, it's been awhile since I posted here but I couldn't help but remembering BdLA, Yubay and Neal Johns. We explored the area in our oversized (both Neal's camper and my motorhome) vehicles but never got to the beach.

Anyway, I see Neal's last post was 2014; has anyone heard from him?

Art


Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Once... spent 2+ days in there. Camped near Bahía Guadalupe and at Punta Candelero. Many years ago. Many others have been in there.

Roads are on my maps and the new Baja Atlas from Benchmark.

Road is at Km. 38. 13.5 miles north is a T junction. To the right is Bahía Guadalupe in 9.8 more miles. To the left is Punta Candelero in 19.6 miles from the junction. A colorful canyon is driven in getting to Candelero.




[Edited on 10-7-2021 by edm1]


Hello Art... we were just talking about you (and with photos) here: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=96671 (you can reply about the dual tire set-up you employ and tire pressure question, too).

I am saddened to report that the great desert explorer and aridologist, Neal Johns, passed away in December 2019. We went to his memorial the following February (a month before Covid may have prevented that gathering).
Neal's last post was actually in 2016: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=72871&pag...

Here is the post of his passing and the memorial photos: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=93792



[Edited on 10-7-2021 by David K]