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Tree Roots
Tree Roots
After a long day with no place to camp in the arroyo we came to a wide sandy place and set up camp. The we were beside the high side of the wash and
noticed the large tree with its branched growing down the side of the wash.
Here are a couple of pictures see the cords on one of the pics to see where.
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looks like a high mountain location to me
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PaulW
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Attempt along the road from San Ignacio toward Mulege. Dead end for two tracks.
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Roots Camp
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coming from the San Ignacio side?
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PaulW
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Started in San Ignacio
Found heavy flood damage in teh washes.
Local residents are doing fine on teh newly created paths.
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here are the drivable roads in the area - your spot is in the middle of nowhere
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David K
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Harald, your latitude figure is different than Paul's.
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Paul's tree root image shows 26 53.9898, -112 33.7188
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images from GE
lots of roads following the washes. some obviously blocked with rocks. We drove well traveled roads recently graded along teh washes.
Attachment: 3-23Trip.kml (299kB)
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If you go to the southeast there is a 2 track road that takes you to R. Las Tunas. From there the road, single track and 2 track is block from the
hurricane in 2014. Baja Blanca used a guide to get to R. Las Tunas. Some motorcycles riders made it thru in 2016 or 2017 I think but had to carry
their bikes over boulders to do so. This is the trail to Mission Guadalupe.
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26 53.9898, -112 32.0265 makes a lot more sense - that is the new connecting road
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OK here's a question-
When out in these far away God knows nowhere areas with roads just WHO drives the road grader or bull dozer? And where do they come from to do that
work?
Always wondered that as I spent a lifetime flying airplanes and looking down on dirt roads in the middle of nowhere.
You chose your position in life today by what YOU did yesterday
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Usually a local rancher has access to a bull dozer or grader and will clear the road to his place. Either the rancher owns it or a friend/neighbor or
maybe the ejido may have access to one. Who takes care of the road usually varies from location to location is my understanding.
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What a surprise after all the big storms. Yes, freshly graded roads with official new signs that were pretty comical - like no passing etc. All along
the areas with bushes there was evidence for freshly trimmed bushes. This means the grader guy had a ground crew to clean up the roads. The most
distant road we traveled it was graded to a ranch gate and that ranch had probably not been occupied for many years.
It is logical to speculate that the ranchers along these various roads had some significant influence to get roads upgraded.
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I can't help myself from addressing the tree in the photo. A fig tree is my guess.
Back in the 70's my friends and I took a little offshoot from the Palo Escopeto Rd. from the San Jose Airport to the East Cape coast at Vinorama and
found a magnificent fig tree whose roots flowed in and out of rock wall like they were liquid, and as smooth as glass.
We returned a couple of times over the years to enjoy the fig trees shade on a flat wave day with a packed lunch and a beer or two.
A slight ocean breeze would make itself up the arroyo to su i the shade which I guess was about ten miles.
I hope that specimen has survived. Whether it is still open like it was or has become fenced off private property by now, I don't know.
I would love to visit it again. Finding it would be a miracle after all these years.
I have some pics somewhere of us chilling [relatively] haha, under the shade and enjoying the pure nature of that magical spot. The silence of the
bend in the arroyo was truly golden, just the desert birds a chirping and the flutter of the fig trees leaves in the breeze.
Back to reality my fellow nomads.
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Yes, they are 'wild figs'... and they make for interesting photos the way they grow on cliffs.
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I was just laughing at that from my trip last month! Does someone get a $ cut for installing unnecessary new signs?
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Indeed! They are amusing to come across and shows how proud they are of these dirt roads... When they are all you got, then why not dress them up?
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There's a nice fig tree you can hike to, south of San Basilio.
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