David K - 5-24-2022 at 09:52 PM
For those new to CaminoRealBaja.com, here is the story:
We are Genevieve Mattar and Kevin Branscum...
We first became interested in the old mission trail in the year 2000 while visiting the rock art of the Sierra de San Francisco. When we came across a
trail that had a different look from the one we were following, we asked our local guide about it. He replied, “That is the old mission trail, el
camino antiguo de los misioneros”. It headed south up and over a distant pass, and in the other direction followed the valley we were in, traveling
northward.
The mystery of that trail, combined with the history of it and the beauty of its surroundings, had us hooked. Since then, we regularly return to
explore El Camino Real, finding more and more pieces of the trail. Our goal was, and still is, to accurately fix its exact position and then share it
with you. We feel that this is the only way we can help keep this fantastic trail alive.
[The new Benchmark Baja Atlas has their ECR trails included]
I knew once Covid restrictions were lifted, they would be overdue to get back to work on hiking and "groundproofing" the mission road network.
I got an email from Kevin today that the updated KMZ for Google Earth is ready:
"Finally the website is up and running! The waypoints are ready for a download. Changes were mostly from the Sta Gertrudis to San Borja section, some
around Sta Gertrudis on the golfo south and a photo at Magdalena...
We placed more information concerning water sources in some places too. A large part of the work involved correcting errors that were made when the
website automatically updated. Anyway, it is done and working properly."
http://caminorealbaja.com/
http://caminorealbaja.com/waypoints/
For those who don't have Google Earth
David K - 5-24-2022 at 10:29 PM
We placed the ECR trail on a couple of different base maps...
https://octopup.org/img/misc/davidk/ecr/caminorealbaja-com-t...
TOPO MAP:
https://octopup.org/img/misc/davidk/ecr/ecr-davidk.jpg
TERRAIN MAP:
