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[*] posted on 2-19-2025 at 02:57 PM


Sorry, couldn't find it on Google Earth. Is it a straight line?
If it is then it sounds consistent with the features at Aqua Dulce and Cerro Almacen.
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[*] posted on 2-19-2025 at 03:16 PM


I recorded that a few years back
it seems to be part of the Indian trail going to Las Animas

an abandoned airstrip i from the time of the road build is close by
almost invisible by now
early AAA maps show the strip

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[*] posted on 2-19-2025 at 03:41 PM


Try copy and paste this in Google earth search and it should work....
28 40'55" n 113 22'18" w

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[*] posted on 2-19-2025 at 03:44 PM


Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  
I recorded that a few years back
it seems to be part of the Indian trail going to Las Animas

an abandoned airstrip i from the time of the road build is close by
almost invisible by now
early AAA maps show the strip



Did not think the natives built trails like that unless the Padres were forcing them to....

Again, the spot is easy to bypass, just by going to the south a hundred feet or so
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[*] posted on 2-19-2025 at 06:08 PM


Quote: Originally posted by David K  


Maybe you saw some of the 1966 road work by the Erle Stanley Garder expedition? Detailed in his 1967 book and in Desert Magazine.


do you have a copy of those paragraphs?




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[*] posted on 2-19-2025 at 06:28 PM


Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  
Quote: Originally posted by David K  


Maybe you saw some of the 1966 road work by the Erle Stanley Garder expedition? Detailed in his 1967 book and in Desert Magazine.


do you have a copy of those paragraphs?


Of course, like all the other things I have tried to make readily available to Baja explorers, on VivaBaja.com in the Desert Magazine Baja links page.

https://vivabaja.com/desert-magazine/ see 1966 Magic of Baja series.

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