Enjoying the new book by Froylan Tiscare�o, 'Baja California Adventures'. He was on many hikes to San Pedro Martir mission with Bud... and it's all in
there! Great stuff, Baja trip diaries from 1962 to 2008.
Thanks Bob... it is how I can mentally be back in Baja, when I am stuck in the USA... well maps and Baja Nomad, that is! I know you and many of my
other friends like seeing maps of the places discussed, specially if they are not of the well known tourist places.
I am happy to try and fill any map requests, as well... just ask! I want to share what I have been collecting for nearly 50 years with anyone who
would enjoy seeing them.
Gotta say I love the hike south out of Mission Santa Maria over the hill and down the water canyon towards Gonzaga...I know DK has posted some pics
and maps of this (well, duh!). Petroglyphs, water, ruins, history, unbelievable views and scenery.
I have seen some beautiful photos from down in the canyon... some You Tube videos as well... I have looked down into the canyon, from the mission
valley end and I have hiked about 2 miles in from the Gonzaga Bay side... but not to the big pool seen in photos (and on the wall at Alfonsina's).
Bajadock, thanks for sharing those pix look really Awesome-Beutiful
David K, like always thanks for your maps and great info really apreciate. Everyone else BajaNomad's really apr�scite all info.. As many we know so
much to do Explore in Baja but so little time to discover all in one trip that's why we all love Baja and keep coming for more & more Txs everyone
Originally posted by Baja Bucko
A great hike would be from San Javier to the Comondus...the last long stretch on el camino real so worn on the rocky mountain down down into the
Comondu valley is incredible.
Also from R. Compostela over the mesa then down into Mission San Borja.
And last but not least that loooong route from the coast south of Agua Verde....the hike from Rancho Los Dolores northward. That route is a lifetime
route......R. Los Dolores is accessible by feet or panga but once there what a hike.
Originally posted by Baja Bucko
That whole plateau is incredible.
I last was on Blue Bottle in 1973 with the late great Baja icon, Bud Bernhard. Speaking of hikes, we had just finished up a 10 day or so plateau
backpack to the mission and surrounding area. A 75 yr old woman was on that trip, Louise Werner, who w her husband, had Desert Magazine. Such
memories......
Probable my favorite area to hike in is the Southern San Pedro Martir area---amazing beauty but being a plant nut, botanically it is the convergent
zone of Yellow Pine Forest, Gulf Desert, Central Desert, Chaparral, and Coastal Scrub/Coastal Sarcophylous Desert. You get all manner of curious
juxtapositions of plants from seemingly disparate regimes---like Cardons and Coast Live Oaks in the same canyon. And there's Blue Palms, everywhere.
"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen.
The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
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