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[*] posted on 9-9-2006 at 09:22 PM
Pre Highway pictures


Having grown in Northern California (Sacramento and north) we spent many weekends camping in the Sierra Nevada's. As I grew up and received my drivers license in 1980 it freed up my brothers and me to explore without our parents.

During the spring we would explore endless dirt roads where the snow had melted enough to allow us to pass. If a drift was too long and too soft we would usually return weeks later to allow time for mother nature to take her course and slowly open up the the high country to our wanderings.

As summer passed into fall we where able to travel countless dirts roads, some might be blocked by fallen trees, overgrown bush, rockslides or the occassional washouts, but we were rarely turned around before reaching the end or hitting another road.

During all those endless hours and miles in the seat covered with dust or being cold and wet were well worth it for the memories and adventures.

As the years passed I would take new friends to some of the better places and while we might hit several spots in a weekend, I would often be asked how I came to know about this spot or that? Little did a person understand or comprehend the countless days spent over the last 25 years exploring dead end roads with little to show for it except the knowledge that those roads went nowhere.

When I first got hooked on Baja it was with that same sense of exploration and adventure that brought me back several times over the last 12 years. While I have too few hours in the seat to really know Baja that well, I wish to be able to go back in time. To explore Baja in the pre Trans-peninsular Highway.

Like some one wishing they lived in the old west, or in the times of the ancient Greek or Romans. I wish I could have explored Baja in the 1950's, '60's and early '70's.

With that said(all of that!) here is a website that you may not be aware of that has two photo collections that make someone like me start dreaming....

Old Baja Pictures

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[*] posted on 9-9-2006 at 09:54 PM


Those are some gems on Harry Crosby's sight, thanks for the tip!
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[*] posted on 9-10-2006 at 09:16 AM


mexitron-boy you are up early today! check your u2u...nice link on the crosby photos.
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[*] posted on 9-10-2006 at 02:41 PM


Great Pictures and Descriptions! Made me call my Pops to dig out our old photos of the trips to San Felipe in 1967-1974. He is going to send a disk after he copies the slides.

We used to camp at a place called Rueben's that seemed to be at the north end of San Felipe. There were cabanas with one electric plug each at the time we went back in 1980 with my 6 girlfriends and my poor brother (then a LAFD probie - now about to be a captain!).




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