So…I’ve been back from Baja for a few days now and I’m just starting to get back into the groove of life in So Cal again. I had one more short video of our whale watching day I thought I’d share…
Good buddy Greg and I thought we’d head out to the range yesterday. The creek was still flowing pretty well from all of our So Cal rains and we made it across, only to find out that the range was still closed. We could have shot as full members, but we didn’t bring target stands with us thinking that the range would be open and they’d be available. Greg commented that he should have video recorded our turning the Subaru into an amphibious vehicle, and then we realized we’d soon have another opportunity…we had to get back across that creek…
That’s it for now. We have two or three more posts from the Baja trip we’ll be adding in the next few days…one focused on the dining, one on not panicking when bikes break down, and one on our itinerary (as good buddy Peter requested). This trip was a bit more relaxed than usual, in that we did about 200 miles per day and we took a full day in Guerrero Negro, and that worked out well.
Later, my friends. Stay tuned!
My aunt and uncle had a cabin in Lytle Creek that got washed away in 1937-38 because of the heavy rain storm that hits there now and then.
Hi Jerry. Good to hear from you. Yeah, the rains can do amazing things. I’m pretty sure diving into that stream was not the smartest thing I ever did. Eager to get back out there, though, and start sending more lead downrange.
When I was much younger I was headed home to Colorado from a mountain bike trip in Moab. Driving up the Colorado River Road, Hwy 128 it was beautiful; it had been raining heavily and there were waterfalls off the tops of the cliffs. When I got to Onion Creek – oh, oh. Today there is a culvert there, but then it was a ford, and the water was running strong. What to do; I could go back and go around the long way but that would add an hour to my trip. After estimating how deep it was, and how strong the current was, I decided to go forward. After crossing I said to myself “I don’t know it that was a good idea”. So now I had a dilemma – go forward, knowing that there is another ford a half mile up the road, or go back. So I drove forward to assess the other ford – it was running about the same as the first so I decided to go for it. I didn’t realize that the water had washed away a good bit of the road on the far side, leaving a “curb”. When I hit that curb the front suspension bottomed out, hard, but I popped out onto the road. While I was sitting there catching my breath I remembered that Volkswagen Bugs have a reputation of being able to float.
That’s awesome, Dan. Yeah, I hear you about that water crossing trepidation, and lest anyone think we’re encouraging driving into swiftly running water, we are not. But it’s fun to tell the story when it turns out well, as it did for you and me.