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David K
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Ej Saldana road is washed out to Pole LINE (see Ken's trip report). La Ventana/Arroyo Grande is the way. Another issue on your dates is Baja 500 race
or pre running.
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Emerson
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A option would be to leave Mexicali a Friday afternoon, drive as far as we can up the PLR and Saturday morning we arrive at Canyon Jamau, and we can
explore options all day long, if we can get thru we can sleep in the canyon, if we dont, we can go up the Sainz Summit (#2 I believe).
So theres basically 2 options in dates I can see:
May 29-30-31
June 5-6-7 (Baja 500 Weekend)
Is the Baja course running close to our routes?
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TMW
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The Baja 500 comes down the La Rumorosa grade to Laguna Salada and down the middle of it keeping to the east. That may change if the dry lake bed is
wet.
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Emerson
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La rumorosa grade?
I believe they run south, right?
http://score-international.com/46th-tecate-score-baja-500-ma...
[Edited on 5-20-2015 by Emerson]
[Edited on 5-20-2015 by Emerson]
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TMW
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Yes they run south. Here is the map.
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=78830
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Emerson
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Duh! I had the 2014 map.
Nice course, la Rumorosa grade will be exciting for sure, the dropoffs are very steep.
The road on the Laguna Salada is very very wet, last sunday I drove by the entrance and 3 Jeeps had back tracked, and by the mud in their rigs, I dont
think that is race worthy, you can actually see the puddles for miles, it rained very hard last weekend in the area.
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PaulW
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Some thoughts:
The Mexicali route Hwy 5 should be OK when heading for the PLR. You will be on the race track from the wells southin AG for a bit, but then keep right
and get off the race track.
We are all betting the race track will be revised where the flooding is, but that supposedly is north of the wells.
Beware there are no reports for Jaquegel and if it received half as much rain as parts north then there will be problems getting through. Even with
no flooding that would be a pretty slow way to get to the 3 summits.
The long route would be to head for the 3 summits would be from Valley Trinidad or Indepencia. No reports of flooding in that region. Adds more time?
for the trip. Hwy 5 then hwy 3. Not a good way during prerunning or race day.
Waiting until after the race and there will be good road condition reports and no conflict with racers.
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David K
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Quote: Originally posted by PaulW  | Some thoughts:
The Mexicali route Hwy 5 should be OK when heading for the PLR. You will be on the race track from the wells southin AG for a bit, but then keep right
and get off the race track.
We are all betting the race track will be revised where the flooding is, but that supposedly is north of the wells.
Beware there are no reports for Jaquegel and if it received half as much rain as parts north then there will be problems getting
through. Even with no flooding that would be a pretty slow way to get to the 3 summits.
The long route would be to head for the 3 summits would be from Valley Trinidad or Indepencia. No reports of flooding in that region. Adds more time?
for the trip. Hwy 5 then hwy 3. Not a good way during prerunning or race day.
Waiting until after the race and there will be good road condition reports and no conflict with racers. |
Paul, are you saying there is new flash flooding in Jaquegel since we all were there last month (Easter)?
I agree it would be a the long way (time wise) from La Ventana/ Hwy. 5 if getting to the summits was the sole purpose. The Pole Line Road's Basketball
Hill and Caņada de Enmedio are real slow/ low range sections of crawl. However, the road is super interesting given its history and seeing phone poles
installed by our boys in 1942 for the defense of California is really thrilling, 73 years later.
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Ken Cooke
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The Mano Canyon trail is incredibly scenic. Your longer wheelbases made the tricky stairstep portion much easier - this was one of the steepest
sections of trail I have ever driven my Jeep. Kinda scarry. 
The PLR to Ejido Saldaņa is completely washed out, like David K said. Our Jeeps on 35s had difficulties locating a viable trail with all of the tall
channels the recent floods had carved into the wash. 
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