Six Days of Baja 1999

Day Five

 


Sunrise at Loretto, one of the neatest places along the Sea of Cortez. It's small enough to have a small town friendliness, but big enough to have some good resources. 

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300 year old mission church at San Javiar. 

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This was lunch at Constitution. It started off as a pig, but that was as much as we could put together. 

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This is the guy who takes it from whole pig to tasty taco fixins. 

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This the pig before it meets the guy who turns it into tasty taco fixins. 

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A rare shot of the trail through the deep sand along the sand dunes above the beach. This is not an optimum place to stop, but I had stalled the bike here and wanted to grab a shot of this trail. I had just fought my way through miles of twisting deep sand single track through the cactus. 

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At the end of the deep sand trail, above the beach. We're taking a break before going down the big dune to the beach. 

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Perched at the top of the big dune, getting ready to head down. It's a lot longer and steeper than it looks like in this shot. 

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Heading down the hill. There are lots of stories of guys who sat at the top for 45 minutes building up the courage to do this. 

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The best part is, when you get to the bottom you have great beach riding for miles and miles. 

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Along the beach. 

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Part of the rhythm of every day is filling up your camelback. 

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Sunset in La Paz. You're pretty much done with the outback of Baja at this point, so the sun is really setting on the high-adventure portions of the ride. 

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