The first adventure last year was a nut buster not only did the brothers from Michigan request one, Baja showed her all and gave them one!!
These guys started planning for this trip 2 years prior and it was expressed many times their riding experience was high and they would be ready for what Baja had to throw out for that I refer to them as the Motor City Mad Men. This blog is not about cream puff flowy trails and restful afternoons sipping cerveza by 4pm, yes we do offer these adventures and I have been advised this blog might scare off customers so these circumstances, route, conditions, are true to the best of my accountability and thus not punishable by BOTH!!
Brothers Of The Hammer is a old riding club from MI that started as lawyers, law enforcement, judges etc and personally speaking a pretty cool club name!
Early October is the end of our rainy / hurricane season and I always give fair warning that a bunch of rain can make things interesting here. Well the hurricanes all missed us but Lydia came for a visit and dropped 30 inches of rain and thus made every direction a challenge to make our daily destination.
Regardless of the unknown the boyz were ready for each day and each day delivered bunches of great miles and smiles along with a few bruises and skin blemish's but nothing to stop the adventure from continuing onward.
Before our season gets kicked off I am pretty sure of conditions and routes but with this early Oct crew and the rains I was not able to review the whole 1000 miles that we had planned out so each evening was filled for me in preparing alternate B, C, to make the planned destination which can certainly make for extra adventure. Dry lake beds that turn to mud swamps, arroyos that are full to detour and sides of mountains that sluff off to the abbiss and to add some Baja spice temperatures that increased 15 degrees all make for exciting days and the cerveza at the end tasting that much better.
On ride day 5, I had a decision to make and with some local info we headed over the mountains and once 3/4 way up things got interesting and after a good hike I came back and told the Boyz we can work our butts off to get through or take the extra 3 hours to go around. Of course after a healthy hearty breakfast the decision was made to march on!. After some serious rock placement and plenty of heavy breathing we crowned the peak and headed for the first stream to cool our over heated bodies.
In the end everybody's ass was beat but the stories and smiles will last a life time and it was certainly a pleasure meeting these great brothers and sharing a true Baja adventure with them.
This is a video they put together yes it is 45 min long so just put it on your screen and play it and about 30 min in don't get freaked out, yes a slip and things could have got?!!! Everybody has a story...and this is theirs...
