Ken Cooke
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8946
Registered: 2-9-2004
Location: Riverside, CA
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Mood: Pole Line Road postponed due to injury
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Beware (12/18): Laguna Salada
This place is "the perfect mud-pit". Mud-Terrain tires, Lockers, and a compliant suspension are no match to this messy quagmire of a road this
salt-flat has become. Wait until Spring '08, or "Travel if you dare"
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Mango
Senior Nomad
Posts: 685
Registered: 4-11-2006
Location: Alta California &/or Mexicali
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Mood: Bajatastic
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Thanks for the update Ken. I was out there last month and everything was fine; but, a storm came in then next day and I am sure it was a mess
afterwards.
There is a higher and drier north south road to the west for anyone needing to get though/into the area while the laguna is drying out.
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David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64852
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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Guadalupe Canyon (Sept. '06)
Last time down there, it was wet on the lakebed... and we were halfway to the canyon when the mud became soft....
The Cooper Discoverer STTs and the Tacoma 4WD plowed right through it. The weight of the Salada mud was so great, that it ripped all of the mud flaps
off!
We came back out on the graded road along the west side of the valley, as Mango said.
The photos from that trip: http://vivabaja.com/906
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Ken Cooke
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8946
Registered: 2-9-2004
Location: Riverside, CA
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Mood: Pole Line Road postponed due to injury
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Victor and I were at the very edge of the lakebed when it became soft and you couldn't control the vehicles. So, we turned around. Too much LODO for
us to worry about...
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BAJACAT
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 2902
Registered: 11-21-2005
Location: NATIONAL CITY, CA
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two years ago we got cought by a storm ,coming back from G-canyon it was to late to go back,so we made our way throught it with difficulty.it took the
guy at the carwash(in mexico)about 50 minutes to clean all the undercarriage.sorry I dont have any pix,but I will never do that again thats some mean
mud..
BAJA IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE, FUN,DANGEROUS,INCREDIBLE, REMOTE, EXOTIC..JUST GO AND HAVE FUN.....
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Ken Cooke
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8946
Registered: 2-9-2004
Location: Riverside, CA
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Mood: Pole Line Road postponed due to injury
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The mud was already packing in the tires as we drove up to the edge of the Lakebed to air down for the trip.
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