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[*] posted on 7-16-2022 at 05:47 PM


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[*] posted on 7-17-2022 at 12:45 PM


Harold, for all the places you have explored and shared here, moon dust/silt beds is new? This surely cannot be.

You have been lucky to have avoided them. They would be forever imbedded in your life of exploring Baja once you did.

Driving north from Pequena in the early 90's in a Ford 4wd van did not inspire confidence once I hit the patch that seems never ending until I gave up and just barely managed to turn around in that thick and so fine dust.

If I had not been alone I might have gone on with some company to share the moon dust with that manages to get in everywhere. Who knew I needed a dust mask at the time to drive through that stuff?

That patch of road, if it could be called that, was extra wide like a four lane highway was going to come in.

It is just as well that the GN Salt works plants owners never made the paved highway south along the coast happen.

Good roads bring all 'sorts' of people is a well known common phrase. Bad roads are a savior in their own way and are so worth the trouble they can bring to get out there.

Who didn't first come to Baja to get out there?

That a few inaccessible areas remain to this day, continues to inspire many us longtime and short time Baja lovers alike.











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[*] posted on 7-17-2022 at 01:01 PM


try the fesh fesh on a scoot!:no:



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[*] posted on 7-17-2022 at 02:18 PM


Quote: Originally posted by surfhat  
Harold, for all the places you have explored and shared here, moon dust/silt beds is new? This surely cannot be.

You have been lucky to have avoided them. They would be forever imbedded in your life of exploring Baja once you did.

Driving north from Pequena in the early 90's in a Ford 4wd van did not inspire confidence once I hit the patch that seems never ending until I gave up and just barely managed to turn around in that thick and so fine dust.

If I had not been alone I might have gone on with some company to share the moon dust with that manages to get in everywhere. Who knew I needed a dust mask at the time to drive through that stuff?

That patch of road, if it could be called that, was extra wide like a four lane highway was going to come in.

It is just as well that the GN Salt works plants owners never made the paved highway south along the coast happen.

Good roads bring all 'sorts' of people is a well known common phrase. Bad roads are a savior in their own way and are so worth the trouble they can bring to get out there.

Who didn't first come to Baja to get out there?

That a few inaccessible areas remain to this day, continues to inspire many us longtime and short time Baja lovers alike.




I know that awful stuff - did not know the term "moon dust"



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[*] posted on 7-17-2022 at 04:45 PM


It is an American term, 'Moon Dust' as that was what our boys discovered up there, 50+ years ago! Now, if they called it 'Baja Dust', wouldn't that have been something!!??



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[*] posted on 7-17-2022 at 05:03 PM


Moon Dust
Silt is What it really is
Other common names
Fluff
Talcum powder
fesh fesh
Regardless of what you call silt, here is a writeup that explains it
https://www.asphaltandrubber.com/racing/fech-fech/


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[*] posted on 7-17-2022 at 05:27 PM


There was an Off Road Pitting group called the Chapala Dusters.

Laguna Chapala is where us 'old road' travelers first experienced the talc-like, silt-dust in great volume.




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[*] posted on 7-18-2022 at 08:03 AM


What remains of the whale, when I was out there in early 2019. It is beached just south of south of town. My first trip out to San Juanico was in 1993 ,we had met up with couple from Alta California on the drive south who had bought a lot and were moving there full time.

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[*] posted on 7-18-2022 at 01:31 PM


Great historical thread --
lots of history both old and new.


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