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David K
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Thanks Russ for sharing the great adventure you had!
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Back in January of 2002 I went down there alone in my stock Jeep Grand Cherokee. I drove along the beach for several miles in each direction. I hadn't
even heard of the concept of airing down yet!
I'm now thinking I had no idea how lucky I was that nothing went wrong. 
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you were super lucky
I got trapped once in the quicksand
but I had expected it and knew exactly what to do
turning off your engine is the first thing to do
any movement or vibration is bad
that also means keep sitting still in the car and give it 10 minutes
then we got out with feather steps
unloading the car as much as possible
even took the spare tire off
then aired down from 10 psi to 4 psi
engaged both lockers
selected 4LOW and reverse (easy on the gas!)
made sure not to touch the steering wheel
drove right out
not funny!
Harald Pietschmann
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JZ
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Can someone drop the GPS location?
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geoffff
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27.8021,-114.4314
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My new toy is an exhaust jack. I haven't tried it yet, but it might this be just the thing for self-recovery the next time I'm stuck in quicksand...?
I am thinking this kind of jack would spread the load, rather than just sinking into the wet sand like my other jacks do.
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Around 1994/5 we went to Malarrimo beach for a camping trip with a few other trucks. We knew not to drive below the high tine line as we had heard
many stories of bad stucks. Ditto the mud in the wash.
So we are screwing around in the dunes and a front hub on my 1993 Ford Ranger exploded, leaving bearings exposed to dirt. I taped it up best I could
to keep dirt out. Next day we are exploring in the other trucks and off in the distance we see the carcass of a truck stuck. As we got close I
recognized it as a Ford Explorer with the roof removed.
We walked out and found that as a last ditch effort to free the stuck truck someone had put tow strap through the windows and tried to roll the truck
sideways to unstuck it, only to rip the roof off. It was toast and was below water at high tide. I dig down to the front hub with my hands and could
feel it had the manual hub I needed. I new how to remove these in my sleep since I frequently snapped front axles in the Ranger. The muddy water
kept filling in but I got the hub off and it had some barnacles on it but was in the locked position and frozen up that way. We took it to camp,
washed it and installed it on my Ranger and drove it home that way. Once back in San Diego I replaced it and for years had that barnacle encrusted
hub on the wall of my garage. They say you never know what you will find on that beach and it's true!
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JZ
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Thx!
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How difficult is the drive through the wash to the beach? I now want to see this place in person.
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geoffff
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Quote: Originally posted by JZ  | | How difficult is the drive through the wash to the beach? I now want to see this place in person. |
I've been there twice.
In 2002, it was easy. The mouth was wide and sandy.
In 2014, it was thick gooey mud, so I didn't try it.
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TMW
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JZ it depends on what the weather has done to it. I Strongly recommend going with at least another vehicle or two. I've been there twice and it was
full of surprises. Lot's of junk to go thru. Some of interest and some to forget. We have found cameras and wetsuits and tons of flipflops.
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watizname
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| Quote: Originally posted by baja-chris | Around 1994/5 we went to Malarrimo beach for a camping trip with a few other trucks. We knew not to drive below the high tine line as we had heard
many stories of bad stucks. Ditto the mud in the wash.
So we are screwing around in the dunes and a front hub on my 1993 Ford Ranger exploded, leaving bearings exposed to dirt. I taped it up best I could
to keep dirt out. Next day we are exploring in the other trucks and off in the distance we see the carcass of a truck stuck. As we got close I
recognized it as a Ford Explorer with the roof removed.
We walked out and found that as a last ditch effort to free the stuck truck someone had put tow strap through the windows and tried to roll the truck
sideways to unstuck it, only to rip the roof off. It was toast and was below water at high tide. I dig down to the front hub with my hands and could
feel it had the manual hub I needed. I new how to remove these in my sleep since I frequently snapped front axles in the Ranger. The muddy water
kept filling in but I got the hub off and it had some barnacles on it but was in the locked position and frozen up that way. We took it to camp,
washed it and installed it on my Ranger and drove it home that way. Once back in San Diego I replaced it and for years had that barnacle encrusted
hub on the wall of my garage. They say you never know what you will find on that beach and it's true! |
Great Story.
I yam what I yam and that\'s all what I yam.
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: Originally posted by JZ | How difficult is the drive through the wash to the beach? I now want to see this place in person.
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The arroyo is best after it has dried out for a month or more. If the arroyo experiences flow, can take a month plus to dry out.
You might be better off taking a lighter 4x4, i.e. not a 1-ton PU packed to the gills.
Woke!
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will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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geoffff
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | The arroyo is best after it has dried out for a month or more. If the arroyo experiences flow, can take a month plus to dry out.
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Seems obvious, but I hadn't thought of that. I should watch the weather for a few weeks before my planned adventures.
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AKgringo
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| Quote: Originally posted by geoffff | | Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | The arroyo is best after it has dried out for a month or more. If the arroyo experiences flow, can take a month plus to dry out.
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Seems obvious, but I hadn't thought of that. I should watch the weather for a few weeks before my planned adventures. |
Also pay attention to recent tide activity. A so called "king tide" along with an onshore wind can flood areas far above normal tide ranges. The
surface could dry out and appear to be easy going, but silt is lurking below!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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| Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo |
Also pay attention to recent tide activity. A so called "king tide" along with an onshore wind can flood areas far above normal tide ranges. The
surface could dry out and appear to be easy going, but silt is lurking below! |
Sounds like running the bikes ahead of the truck(s) as scouts would be a good strategy?
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this is some DATED info..... Malarrimo we came down from punta Eugenia and had fun exploring the defunct punta falso resort someones dream I suppose?
followed a coastal trail east that abruptly ended at a structure built in the middle of the road (made out of pallets) on the other side a drop off
cliff that seemed like a thousand feet down to the water. traveled inland east to malarrimo that was just a garbage heap, all the plastic garbage
anyone could ever want... (we knew about the quicksand) headed out back to the highway from malarrimo with nothing to follow other than stand on the
roof of the 4runner and look for any vegetation that would give away the buried location of the pipe ( we don't use any GPS electronics that'll rob
you of any adventure left in baja) hey thats just us. the only above ground feature was a stone structure you could climb up on top open a hatch
and see fresh water rushing west out to Eugenia. this was half way from malarrimo and the turn off to Asuncion. its a cool area to dick around
and the beaches east of Eugenia are loaded with halibut that'll jump all over your Kroc, locals give a ratsazz if you fish just don't touch their
bugs....SALUD
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geoffff
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"resort" structures at Punta Falsa as of 2019:
https://octopup.org/baja2019/punta-eugenia
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: Originally posted by JZ | | Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo |
Also pay attention to recent tide activity. A so called "king tide" along with an onshore wind can flood areas far above normal tide ranges. The
surface could dry out and appear to be easy going, but silt is lurking below! |
Sounds like running the bikes ahead of the truck(s) as scouts would be a good strategy?
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Jizzy: since you always travel in baja with security guards, maybe you can give them pikes, make them walk ahead of your entourage and probe the
ground for soft spots, sweep for land mines, etc. What kind of rig do your guards drive?
Is your own car armored? Armored vehicles weigh a lot, probably best not chance driving in mud.
Woke!
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willardguy
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2019 heck that was just a few years ago! thanks for posting I hope someone has an update!
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