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bajaguy
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SPOT
Mark.........if you are going solo, I highly suggest that you take SPOT along:
http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=100
Nomads can track you, we can provide help if necessary and the 911 function will provide an emergency response in the event of injury
Don't leave home without it!!!!
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OK guys ... I plan to do this canyon solo in a few weeks. I don't think it's rained lately but I'm taking all my own water anyways. I have a Surly
Pugsley fatbike with a trailer. Then I'll packraft back down the coast. I'll have two seawater desalinators -- one a hand pump and one a campfire
distiller.
We checked out the dry lakebeds last year and it looks like you could haul your bike over into the canyon but I discovered an easier way to enter.
I'll go in from the west, there is a dirt road leading from the main Baja highway that goes right into the head of the canyon. From there I'll just
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Mark_BC
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OK I will. BTW, does anyone have opinions on the Katadyn water desalinators? I was planning on a Survivor 6 which is small but slow. Someone on
another mountain bike forum recommended the 35 model which is quite a bit larger. I see them on ebay for $335 which seems ridiculously cheap, don't
know if there's a catch.
http://forums.mtbr.com/fat-bikes/does-stans-work-tubes-88914...
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Mark_BC
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
Mark.........if you are going solo, I highly suggest that you take SPOT along:
http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=100
Nomads can track you, we can provide help if necessary and the 911 function will provide an emergency response in the event of injury
Don't leave home without it!!!!
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Yea I have one. I presume that if I have the regular insurance they will pluck me out of Mexico no problems, no charge?
It's not actually a big deal to rescue someone because there is no "search" component to it which is what most of the effort in rescue involves, only
"rescue", since they know exactly where I am.
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woody with a view
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when are you going in?
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bajaguy
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Correct
| Quote: | Originally posted by Mark_BC
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
Mark.........if you are going solo, I highly suggest that you take SPOT along:
http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=100
Nomads can track you, we can provide help if necessary and the 911 function will provide an emergency response in the event of injury
Don't leave home without it!!!!
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Yea I have one. I presume that if I have the regular insurance they will pluck me out of Mexico no problems, no charge?
It's not actually a big deal to rescue someone because there is no "search" component to it which is what most of the effort in rescue involves, only
"rescue", since they know exactly where I am. |
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Mark_BC
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| Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
when are you going in? |
I fly to LA Dec 17, then I'm not sure how I'll get down. The dirt road starts ~95 km south of Catavina, off the highway in the middle of nowhere.
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woody with a view
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start a new thread. plenty of people will want to help.
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David K
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Mark, like Graham Mackintosh does, you may add me to your SPOT email notification list, and I will post a new map of your SPOT location each day you
send one in. I am at info *at* vivabaja.com (change *at* to @).
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BajaBlanca
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so cool! we will hopefully be able to follow your trip .... all of us who can not go on this adventure in person.
Best of luck!
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bajaguy
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Maybe
Maybe he can send the link to Doug so we can all see it whenever we want to look
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Mark, like Graham Mackintosh does, you may add me to your SPOT email notification list, and I will post a new map of your SPOT location each day you
send one in. I am at info *at* vivabaja.com (change *at* to @). |
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
Maybe he can send the link to Doug so we can all see it whenever we want to look
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Mark, like Graham Mackintosh does, you may add me to your SPOT email notification list, and I will post a new map of your SPOT location each day you
send one in. I am at info *at* vivabaja.com (change *at* to @). |
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Sadly, I have a lot more free time than Doug, so everyone would see the location probably sooner if I did it. Once the map is posted, it will be here
on Nomad to see whenever you want. That is if it is a single transmit, as the way Graham does it to save battery life.
Naturally, they could do the live continuous transmit like the two guys did walking down Baja... until they lost the Spot device when it fell off
their backpack near San Ignacio. In that case, just a link posted here would work. That would be great too, as making the maps appear here does take
some work.
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Mark_BC
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OK, I posted my trip report so now I can stop hijacking Larry's thread.
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=70746
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