Mar

14

A new hiking strategy along the 1000-mile rough finger of land called Baja that has thwarted me for many years was mastered in February '07. The method was a series of two to four-day hikes for one month on old trails, each time emerging to the trans-peninsular highway to hitch or bus to the next walk. My pack weighed 30lb. loaded with a sleeping bag, biv sack, food, water, no stove, change of socks, and map.

During a dozen hikes to remote missions, oases, mountaintops, and the seas, I saw no other hikers and cleaned up weekly at motels if needed. The altitude ranged from beach through deserts to 6000' mountains with temperatures of 35-90 degrees F, from the U.S. and Mexican border south to the tip before I pulled out at mid-peninsula in early March due to rattlesnakes.


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