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Curt63
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BIG sand - Where in Baja is this sand pile?
I just got back from riding at Glamis and I'm all fired up!
I took this video this morning. Its poor quality, but you get the picture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzFaqxvRC6o
Where else can you ride the BIG sand in Baja? Show pics if you got em!
Big Baja sand
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BajaWarrior
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There is a nice pile of sand at San Antonio del Mar (Colonet) that has some steep hills on the south end.
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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bajaandy
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Curt, you've already been there... Seven Sisters. That's all I'm saying. (Wouldn't want to incur the wrath of the Sacred Saints of the Seven Sisters!)
(On Edit: Not sayin that's where your picture was taken... could have been San Antonio Del Mar. Or maybe down at San Quintin. Or maybe even south of
El Socorro. Dunes at all of those places.)
[Edited on 10-3-2011 by bajaandy]
subvert the dominant paradigm
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durrelllrobert
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Big dunes south of Rosarito, across MX 1 from Rancho Descanso development and overlooking Pacific (can't get that at Glamis) 
[Edited on 10-3-2011 by durrelllrobert]
Bob Durrell
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Curt63
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Good suggestions. I rode San Antonio Del Mar last Oct and I'll be there again in a few weeks.
The Cantamar dunes are mixed for me. I met my wife camping there and I dislocated my shoulder on an ATC.
Seven Sisters....hmmmmm?......... processing
Hint: the big Baja sand is several miles from the Pacific. I bet Russ knows
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David K
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Just north of the Guerrero Negro airport are the Sarafan Sand Dunes... beautiful! I went in there in 1985...
Read about it in Jim Hunter's 1977 guidebook 'Offbeat Baja'. Here is the start of his directions: Go 2.4 miles north of the Eagle Monumant and take
the road west...
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Bob H
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Just north of the Guerrero Negro airport are the Sarafan Sand Dunes... beautiful! I went in there in 1985...
Read about it in Jim Hunter's 1977 guidebook 'Offbeat Baja'. Here is the start of his directions: Go 2.4 miles north of the Eagle Monumant and take
the road west... |
I googled Sarafan and the only thing I could find was this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarafan
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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rts551
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Just north of the Guerrero Negro airport are the Sarafan Sand Dunes... beautiful! I went in there in 1985...
Read about it in Jim Hunter's 1977 guidebook 'Offbeat Baja'. Here is the start of his directions: Go 2.4 miles north of the Eagle Monumant and take
the road west... |
Sorry David. Your directions don't get you to this sand.
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rts551
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Another shot o this area. way bigger than GN.
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Curt63
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To get there, you've got to cross this vast salt flat.
You may recognize one active and one former Nomad.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsi6iiUUhJ1qen5pzo1_500.jp...
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rts551
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Lets take David out there in his Toy!
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Curt63
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The salt flats are tough on a bike if you break through the crust.
This guy is a solid rider
Sorry. I'll fix the link soon
[Edited on 10-4-2011 by Curt63]
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woody with a view
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what's your password?
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rts551
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looks like you stumped them Curt, at least for a while~
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by rts551
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Just north of the Guerrero Negro airport are the Sarafan Sand Dunes... beautiful! I went in there in 1985...
Read about it in Jim Hunter's 1977 guidebook 'Offbeat Baja'. Here is the start of his directions: Go 2.4 miles north of the Eagle Monumant and take
the road west... |
Sorry David. Your directions don't get you to this sand.
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Sorry Ralph, but agian you failed reading 101: "Here is the start of his directions: Go 2.4 miles ..." HIS being the key word.
Anyone can see the dunes and road on Google Earth and copy the GPS or figure the miles.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob H
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Just north of the Guerrero Negro airport are the Sarafan Sand Dunes... beautiful! I went in there in 1985...
Read about it in Jim Hunter's 1977 guidebook 'Offbeat Baja'. Here is the start of his directions: Go 2.4 miles north of the Eagle Monumant and take
the road west... |
I googled Sarafan and the only thing I could find was this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarafan |
I didn't name them... it is what Jim Hunter called them... and what made me go check them out in July, 1985. I found them with Jim Hunter's
directions, even though Ralph says they are wrong... Maybe after nearly 30 years, another road is a shorter way in?
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rts551
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What are you talking about? Curt asked where this was? your answer is wrong. You just couldn't figure that part out could you? Reading 101 DK..
This sand refers to the subject of the post!
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by rts551
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Just north of the Guerrero Negro airport are the Sarafan Sand Dunes... beautiful! I went in there in 1985...
Read about it in Jim Hunter's 1977 guidebook 'Offbeat Baja'. Here is the start of his directions: Go 2.4 miles north of the Eagle Monumant and take
the road west... |
Sorry David. Your directions don't get you to this sand.
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Sorry Ralph, but agian you failed reading 101: "Here is the start of his directions: Go 2.4 miles ..." HIS being the key word.
Anyone can see the dunes and road on Google Earth and copy the GPS or figure the miles. |
[Edited on 10-4-2011 by rts551]
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rts551
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David my comment was directed at you having the wrong answer..
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob H
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Just north of the Guerrero Negro airport are the Sarafan Sand Dunes... beautiful! I went in there in 1985...
Read about it in Jim Hunter's 1977 guidebook 'Offbeat Baja'. Here is the start of his directions: Go 2.4 miles north of the Eagle Monumant and take
the road west... |
I googled Sarafan and the only thing I could find was this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarafan |
I didn't name them... it is what Jim Hunter called them... and what made me go check them out in July, 1985. I found them with Jim Hunter's
directions, even though Ralph says they are wrong... Maybe after nearly 30 years, another road is a shorter way in? |
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David K
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I don't know what you are talking about... I am talking about the sand dune field just north of the Guerrero Negro Airport and a bit south of Villa
Jesus Maria... to the west of Mex. 1.
I then mentioned how I heard about them... in Jim Hunter's 1977 book... and I gave the location of the access road from Jim Hunter's book. Curt is a
big boy, if I could find it with Jim's poor directions, then he can as well...
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Ateo
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Just south of Datil is a large swathe of sand.
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