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David K
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BERRENDO EXPOSED!
Okay, I did a Google flyover...
Mexictron, yes... my grotto is further downstream from yours... Seeing this from above on Google satellite, the size of Berrendo becomes clear... it
is huge!
First, looking north from high above Matomi:
Now, closer to Berrendo, still looking north:
A bit closer up of the lower Berrendo canyon. Dart is on my grotto (the giant boulder in photos), still looking north:
Okay, now I am rotated around, looking up the canyon... mostly southward. Here is the Berrendo arroyo from where you leave the Carricitos-Parral road:
Here is much closer, where we park our trucks and begin to hike:
Here we approach the lower (my) grotto... other giant boulders can be seen from space here:
Past the lower grotto...
Here is a major split (the one Mexitron mentions?):
The top of Berrendo... the yellow pin on the left edge is Rancho Parral:
SO MUCH BAJA... SO LITTLE TIME!
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Barry A.
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David------those are fabulous aerials---------it looks to me that Mexitron's "amphitheater" could be possibly driven to, or easily hiked to, via an
un-named wash between Parral and Berrendo that appears to drain it, and that is visible on the left of one of your shots, and that unnamed wash would
intersect the "cross-over" road between Berrendo and Parral Also, there is not much (if anything) separating the "amphitheater" from Rancho Parral
(which almost is at the upper end of the amphitheater???)
Those aerials sure give a different (and definitely more accurate) picture of what that country is like.
Barry
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Mexitron
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
We always wanted to hike up Agua Caliente further, and in fact Bud Berhnard did hike up the main canyon in the '60's on what he reported was a
"historical trail" all the way to Mission San Pedro Martir. Bud always felt that the main access to the Mission was Cajon canyon, however, and he
also reported a "historical trail" up that canyon, as I recall.
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Wow, interesting...be nice to check that route again and see if anything is left.
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Mexitron
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I'm trying to gather pics from the Berrendo ampitheater (or as Myron Smith used to call it---the Berrendo Bowl)......Libby Durfee (Taco de Baja's
sister) sent this one...doesn't show much except our motley crew on an overnight campout but you can see how the canyon opens way up. From left to
right: Jonathan Smith, Taco de Baja, me, Libby, and her husband Miles:
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Mexitron
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Barry---maybe Taco de Baja will chime in on this topic--I'm sure he would remember Myron mentioning a connection between Parral and Berrendo.
I tried reaching Berrendo from the Pacific side in 1996---my old girlfriend and I drove past the Rancho Nuevo area and started hiking east---we got up
onto the beginning of the mesa-lands in the afternoon but didn't quite have enough daylight to get into the ampitheater and make it back before dark.
Myron said he and Frank Nordhoff did it in the 60s or 70s but they started early in the morning and didn't get back until well after dark...also, it
had just rained so there was plenty of water along the way.
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Mexitron
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Nice job with the google maps David---thanks for doing that! Gotta get back to work...will try to dig up more info later....
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
Nice job with the google maps David---thanks for doing that! Gotta get back to work...will try to dig up more info later.... |
It was fun... only made me late to get the Tacoma in for its second oil change!
Hey Nomads... if this back country stuff looks interesting, you just might enjoy seeing Mexitron's photos of climing MATOMI MOUNTAIN and hiking up
MATOMI CANYON (beyond the ranch)! SEE: http://vivabaja.com/mexitron/
Mexitron and the mountain...Matomi Mountain!
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