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ANOTHER WHERE IS THIS
As promised, here's another one.
I will sweeten the pot on this, not just for bragging rights to your Baja knowledge.
Anyone with a correct U2U answer will get a ride in GSB, which means you will have to connect with me somewhere in Baja, which may or may not be any
kind of gift. 
I'll post who has guessed correctly.
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That's some wall! You got me on that one Gadget!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
That's some wall! You got me on that one Gadget! |
There is no way!!! If you don't want a ride just say so 
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YES!!! There really are places in Baja I have NOT been to!!!  
In fact, there is more Baja that I haven't seen than I have seen... So much Baja, so little time!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by soulpatch
I'll just say it's just east of you father in law's place.
Cierto? |
Sorta warm.
I'll just say it took 2.5 hrs to get to.
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I have not idea, but I just can't imagine the number of man-hours it took just to build what you see in the photo. How long is this wall. Wow,
that's a whole lot of rocks man.
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I know where it isn't....
...I was on a business trip back in the mid-70's to Northern Sumatra in Indonesia - you thought Baja was 'remote'...!
The Government had an ongoing rural road 'paving' program that gave the locals some spending money for their labor.
After collecting a load of river stones, a truck would dump a pile of rocks every so often along the dirt track. They would also toss off several
barrels of tar along side.
It was the locals job to sort through the rock pile and 'grade' the stones by length. Starting in the middle of the road, they would stand the taller
rocks on end and use diminishing length stones along side toward the side of the road to effectively make a built in 'crown' to the road.
After a flock of stones were placed, they would heat up a tar barrel with some scrub brush and pour it onto and around the stones to keep them in
place!
They would only place stones on one half of the road at a time so traffic could roll by on the unfinished part without messing up the 'new' paving...
It made one heck of a 'stout' roadway, but took years and years to complete! Hey, I'm sure the Great Wall of China took a few years to complete,
too!
Got to see lots of 'wild' critters on that trip, but that's a story for another time...
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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| Quote: | Originally posted by soulpatch
I'll just say it's just east of you father in law's place.
Cierto? |
Frank, wouldn't 'east of' put you in the bay?
But with that hint, it must be another mine roadbed since there are several mines in the area, verdad?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexray
...I was on a business trip back in the mid-70's to Northern Sumatra in Indonesia - you thought Baja was 'remote'...!
The Government had an ongoing rural road 'paving' program that gave the locals some spending money for their labor.
After collecting a load of river stones, a truck would dump a pile of rocks every so often along the dirt track. They would also toss off several
barrels of tar along side.
It was the locals job to sort through the rock pile and 'grade' the stones by length. Starting in the middle of the road, they would stand the taller
rocks on end and use diminishing length stones along side toward the side of the road to effectively make a built in 'crown' to the road.
After a flock of stones were placed, they would heat up a tar barrel with some scrub brush and pour it onto and around the stones to keep them in
place!
They would only place stones on one half of the road at a time so traffic could roll by on the unfinished part without messing up the 'new' paving...
It made one heck of a 'stout' roadway, but took years and years to complete! Hey, I'm sure the Great Wall of China took a few years to complete,
too!
Got to see lots of 'wild' critters on that trip, but that's a story for another time... |
Ray, would love to see photos of that! WOW
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There ya go. Now you're headed in the correct direction.
It's actually a platform. It is one of many, along with walls in the area.
It is 10 feet wide and 60 feet or so in length.
You can actually see it with the naked eye from Rick Mears place and south.
So now you know its in the BoLA area and which direction.
Anyone got a name?
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Santa Marta?
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The answer is....
Santa Marta mine. Operated about 100 years ago, mainly gold, some silver.
Here are some more photos of our 5 hour, there and back, hike to around 1500 feet elevation. The trail is the old pack mule trail that is washed out,
rutted and unmaintained for decades. Switch backs most of the way, rocky trail with awesome views.
This is the cable car line down the face of the mountain. You can see it with binocks or telescope from probably Roger Mears place south along the
bay shore.
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Top of cable car line looking down. The ore cars ran on tracks and were controlled by a cable.
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Looking across the wall at begining of thread, to the water
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The railbed at top of climb at its western end at the canyon dropoff.
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The notch, a little off center on distant ridge is where the cable with the ore cars is reported to have come from the mine operation to the point
where this photo is taken. The human effort to have built this operation so long ago starts to become a staggering thought.
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The canyon below looking west that the ore car cable crosses.
Heh Ken, Looks like some awesome rock crawling down there for the Jeeps guys!
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Top of climb looking toward the Bahia
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Looking to the south east
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Sorry the photos are a little smaller than I'd like. Still trying to find the sweet spot on shrinking ones that came off Leslie's Canon.
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