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David K
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This was just posted on my Baja Missions Facebook page... a 360° drone photo above Mission Calamajué: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4831400766904982
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Quote: Originally posted by PaulW  | I have not been to the new gate. I bet the gate is close to Old Coco’s place. If so, here are some roads in the area.
At K179.5
Follow the blue road past New Coco’s place and take the first left. Decent road that has not been used for racing for a while. Be aware the race
just when thru there and the turn off the old Hwy 5 may be hidden behind the bank on the side of the old road.
Do not take the gold colored road which is old Hwy5 and the race track, and lead’s to old Coco;s place and back to new Hwy5.
The image also shows the new Hwy to Chapala.
When you follow the blue road you will come to the intersection to the Pioneer mine and follow to Calamajue.
Make the hard right turn onto the green road to Calamajue.
To help you find the blue road at new Coco look on your device for these coords
29 32.984, -114 20.383 and 29 33, -114 20.33
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That does look like it would go around the gate I encountered. Hope there isn't one on the blue route now too!
Thanks.
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I don't understand the problem. Why not just take the bypass around the gate? That's what we did. In my opinion it's pretty stupid to put in a locked
gate then build a bypass around it, what good does that do?
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4x4abc
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the gate on the Calamajue Road has always been there
I have seen it closed many years ago
but mostly it is open
it was locked again this year in March
Coco was not aware of it when I told him after I had encountered it in March
ran into 2 other attempts to block the roads in the area with giant tires
Harald Pietschmann
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David K
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I drove from Coco's Old Corner to Calamajué Mission and on south to El Crucero in September of 2016 and about 4 months later drove from Coco's to
Puerto Calamajué and back... no gate or blockade attempt then or before on my earlier trips in Calamajué Canyon (2012, 2002, 1979, 1975, 1974,
1967)... so saying it "always has been there" maybe is not precise?
I am curious when this gate was installed (2017+ ?) and if the reason was the illegal mining of material rock, I read in the past?
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1967!
A life of fears leads to a death bed of regrets.
Find someone who will take care of you, and take care of them.
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4x4abc
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | I drove from Coco's Old Corner to Calamajué Mission and on south to El Crucero in September of 2016 and about 4 months later drove from Coco's to
Puerto Calamajué and back... no gate or blockade attempt then or before on my earlier trips in Calamajué Canyon (2012, 2002, 1979, 1975, 1974,
1967)... so saying it "always has been there" maybe is not precise?
I am curious when this gate was installed (2017+ ?) and if the reason was the illegal mining of material rock, I read in the past?
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the gate has been there 30+ years - always open
except once about 20 years ago
good to hear it was open in2016, David.
and now
Coco claims he is not involved
Harald Pietschmann
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David K
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Was this gate very near Coco's old corner, as one GPS point indicated? Not only was it open, on every one of my past trips, but hard to imagine I
didn't see it, unless the well-used road simply went around it and I paid no mind to it being there?? Funny that no other Nomad trip reports mentioned
a locked gate blocking the road the past 20 years!
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there is some sort of a fence line going across the road
don't know whether it is related to the nearby mining claim
or the Ejido
since the other blockages are big tractor tires - maybe some of the road workforce wanted to play a practical joke?
Coco knows everything that happened in the area
he claimed in March that he did not know about it
he is a pretty good prankster
I suspect him of putting up that gate
Harald Pietschmann
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Very cool drone shot!
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David K
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I agree!
The fellow posted it on my Baja Missions Facebook group.
Join us! https://www.facebook.com/groups/bajamissions
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