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I'll put this on my bucket list...
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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PaulW
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see it on Google Earth too... N29°10.69', W113°59.26'[/rquote]
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I can see a track on roads from the Hwy until the route gets to the wash leading to the destination. What is the experience of driving up the wash?
Doable and how close can one get?
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Fatboy
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Not only the water holes but you have rock walls to ponder.....
 
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And rock art....
Of course there is the Rock-on-A-Stick....
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Quote: Originally posted by PaulW  | see it on Google Earth too... N29°10.69', W113°59.26'[/rquote]
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I can see a track on roads from the Hwy until the route gets to the wash leading to the destination. What is the experience of driving up the wash?
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It is about a 1/2 mile walk from the first wash you enter from the road as I recall
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Fatboy----------do you have an estimate of how far above the main Yubay waterhole those other two are, and are those two close together?
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There are some interesting things to see in the area like window rock. Must walk or bike to it.
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Neal and Marian Johns photographed the area in 2003 after a lot of rain: http://vivabaja.com/neal2
[Edited on 11-23-2016 by David K]
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| Quote: Originally posted by Barry A. | | Fatboy----------do you have an estimate of how far above the main Yubay waterhole those other two are, and are those two close together?
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The long narrow one was right up the main one in all the pictures... maybe 50 feet upstream.
The other was 3/4 of a mile maybe a little more.... as I recall I walked around 1.5 miles upstream that day.
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| Quote: | | see it on Google Earth too... N29°10.69', W113°59.26' |
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| Quote: | | I can see a track on roads from the Hwy until the route gets to the wash leading to the destination. What is the experience of driving up the wash?
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The 4WD road ends in the wide sand wash, a short distance west of the junction of the (north-south) Yubay canyon wash and that big one that comes from
the northwest.
Park there and hike straight across the wash to the north side... look for the trail that short-cuts you to the Yubay canyon arroyo. This is the El
Camino Real, by-the-way. As I recall, the over-all walking distance to the main tinaja (fig tree) was just under a mile... but I will double check.
The boulders in the Yubay Canyon prevent vehicles from getting in there. Mules yes, Jeeps no.
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PaulW
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Thanks
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A photo of Yubay from a book I just acquired - "The Call to California: The Epic Journey of the Portola-Serra Expedition in 1769."
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That was the book project that introduced photographer Harry Crosby to Baja California and its El Camino Real! Harry's first book, The King's Highway
in Baja California, was published in 1974.
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Thanks to my librarian's quick eye, I acquired a set of like-new copies of Last of the Californios, The Sea of Cortez, The Call to California, The
King's Highway, and Our Historic Desert--all for $1 each at the friends of the library sale. I had most of them, but couldn't pass them up.
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If your interested in selling the Kings Highway for a reasonable price I would l would love to buy it......
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Last of the Californios and The King's Highway in Baja California are excellent books.
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