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PaulW
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DK, Can you post the KMZ with the track?
Or email it tome
Thanks
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David K
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pjpvi posted it in this thread, above... I got it from there:
Quote: Originally posted by pjpvi  | ... and here is my track from the days hike. I had it set to log every 5 minutes.
I really wasn't sure I was on the El Camino Real trail until I got into the rocks of the mountain then it was very clear.
Attachment: Oasis hike.kml (223kB)
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PaulW
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Now I cannot find the Coordinates for the mission
Can you help?
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David K
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Every mission's GPS is in my book as well as on my website.
If you don't have my book, your many contributions to Baja exploration has earned you one (u2ume your mailing address)!
Online at VivaBaja.com it is in the Spanish Missions section, part 4. Here is the direct link: http://vivabaja.com/missions4/
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Has anyone here made it to the largest pool this year? PJPVI's track gets close but seems like he didn't quite get to the big pool. I did a similar
hike in 2019 and ran out of daylight before we could get there.
I'm hoping to do this as an overnight in a couple of weeks and want to know if there's much water left there after the relatively dry year we've had.
Scott
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4x4abc
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the big pool always has water
the only way to safely reach it is by leaving first light from however far you can drive
the "road" in from Santa Ynes is so chewed up by idiot drivers that I decided a couple of weeks ago right before Widowmaker not to continue.
I have rarely ever turned around.
We had a Ranger with only rear lockers and decided that this was no longer consumer grade driving.
Advertising the chit out of this place has definitely taken its toll
Attachment: Santa Maria.kmz (20kB)
This file has been downloaded 259 times
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PaulW
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Thanks Harald
I value your effort to deal with the tracks.
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advrider
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I rode it on my moto two years ago and it was a crazy climb back out, the kind where you don't want to make a mistake. I wouldn't drive anything in
there that wasn't locked front and rear with some serious ground clearance. I would do it in my scrambler on 37's and 1 ton's but not in anything near
stock or much smaller.
Not an easy place to get help or recovered from.
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David K
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Nomads at The Widowmaker and The Bog, 2010 (HB Murphy videos)
Yes, but bad roads bring good people!
Our epic 2010 trip to Mission Santa María on video.
Three Tacomas, one 4Runner, one Dakota, and a 4x4 motorhome!
Video one is coming down the Widowmaker in the lead Tacoma.
Video two is my Tacoma followed by the rest of the gang, coming down the Widowmaker.
Video three is the first Tacoma going through the bog (be sure to have the volume up, as Zoom in the lead Tacoma is quite funny).
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw44OnITtRc
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slqyAwt6CP8
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBvjeiwTN48
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4x4abc
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David,
10 years ago the road was easy
not any more
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David K
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It has been a tough grade since my first time in 1999 when I gave it the name Widowmaker, after Mur and I both were tossed from our rides and spilled
blood on the rocks!
The deep water in the bog was the worst part of our 2010 trip. My 2003 and 2007 trips were pretty easy with the Widowmaker being the toughest part as
the water was shallow or below the sand on those trips.
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mtgoat666
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Nonsense.
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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The correct quotation is "Bad roads bring good people, and an occasional goat!"
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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4x4abc
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advertising bad roads brings destruction
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mtgoat666
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These days no one can have an “adventure” without posting their trip video online in a pathetic quest for “likes.” That’s why land owners
put in gates/fences. Sounds like this area needs a good barrier to keep out the wanna-bes and lemmings.
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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since the Mexican have discovered internet advertising lotsa people are going.too bad gates are killing it for all of
us.
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Neat seeing that large campervan make it! Now I'm thinking I can do it in my van!
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| Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc | since the Mexican have discovered internet advertising lotsa people are going.too bad gates are killing it for all of
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The gates are not the problem. People are the problem.
Gates only appear after people become a problem. Fix the people and gates won’t be necessary.
Big convoys of 4WDs driving irresponsibly (and often drinking) turns off landowners.
Tear up the land, leave trash, talk trash — results in gates.
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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That is a cool picture but not at all what it looks like now, there are steps in the 3 foot plus size going back up now. Driving out a d parking
before this hill and hiking would not be bad at all.
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David K
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If it was easy then it wouldn't be called "Widowmaker"!
Geoffff, more photos in this trip page http://vivabaja.com/msm2010/
and in the big Nomad trip report from May 2010.
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