Sunday, December 30, 2012

Running the routes

The day after Christmas Bill and I loaded up the Taco and met Huber and Scuba Steve in his bitchen 4 runner at the border and headed for Cuatro Casas, to run the Camp 4lo day one part of the tour.
Mexico greeted us with a new port of entry. Now entering Mexico is even simpler. 

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Rain followed us most  the way but as we motored South, Baja rewarded us with mostly sunny skies and low 70's temps.


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We arrived at Cuatro Casas mid day, and as usual Richard, the proprietor greeted us with open arms. 
We checked in, secured our gear, and found ourselves with a few remaining hours of daylight. We decided to run the beach route South for a few miles, to shake down our rigs and go for some Tacos down at the Pirate bar on Punta Camalu.

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Scuba Steve wasted no time displaying how he got his moniker.


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After some lunch we took a little run down on the beach South of Camalu. As the sun started to set, feeling good that our rigs were ready we turned around and motored back to Cuatro Casas.




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Back at Cuatro Casas we enjoyed an epic dinner of Richards famous halibut tacos, some fire pit, a couple cold Pacificos, and great conversation about the day that was to come.



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Morning greeted us with a great sunrise. Richard had the coffee hot and breakfast ready.


We hit the trail north toward Campo Corona then hit the beach again toward San Antonio Del Mar.
We spent some time on the dunes.

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Airing down

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Nothing but fun to be had on these dunes.

After the dune fun, we traveled East and met up with the Baja 500 race course.

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Taco in 4LO getting some work done.

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A little mud obviously does not bother Huber.

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Steve negotiating the trail.

We traveled North up the coast toward Erindria and saw great vistas, challenging climbs, and fun overlanding.
Baja has something for everyone. There were plenty of either or's so any 4 x 4 can have fun over this terrain.


We continued on the Baja 500 course into Erindria then hopped on the pavement back to Cuatro Casas.

Richard had a nice dinner of scallops prepared for us. We enjoyed another nice evening around the fire pit where we exchanged recollections about the trail that day.


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This was a great trip with some even better guys.
Scuba Steve
Chris Huber
Bill Bryant
Rob Black 
Flynn Bryant 
my son Jacob Frick
And Chuy the wonder dog
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Band of brothers forever on the Camp4lo inaugural run
Thank you all for coming down and sharing my love of Baja. 
I can't wait until the next run in February.

All the photos from this trip can be viewed at
Camp4lo Flicker page


Additional photo credits
Scuba Steve
Chris Huber
Bill Bryant 
















1 comment:

  1. Nice work Matt. You put together a fun trip and I'm glad we went. Good trails, good food, good Lord, let's go back! Tacos rule–both kind.

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