Bikepacking the Baja Divide, Part I: Tecate to San Ignacio

Bikepacking the Baja Divide, Part I: Tecate to San Ignacio

*Written by Neon*

 
The US/Mexico border at Tecate
We made it into Mexico on my 35th birthday and Fidgit surprised me with a cake of sorts (graham crackers and icing)
Planning our first full day of riding outside of Tecate
When you find a good swimming hole in the desert, you take advantage! Here’s Fidgit getting ready to jump in.
View from the saddle.
Baja has some of the most beautiful sunsets I’ve ever seen, here’s one of them.
Mornings along the Pacific we’re surprisingly damp. This particular morning we were waiting for the sense fog to lift before we rode along.
There were multiple vineyards along this stretch of Baja, near Ensenada.
Trying out some new food combinations: orange slices and Tajin.
I began calling some of the ruts along these forgotten roads ‘crevasses’ because of their depth.
We found some green!
Cow trough water is better than no water.
Choose your lane carefully, it could quickly turn into a giant rut.
Another beautiful sunset along the Baja Divide Route
My ‘look at this decent road’ face
My ‘what the heck is this? It’s so cool!’ face
Making our way out to the Pacific again
Fidgit and Birdie figuring out some bike stuff
Such cool Flora!
If you like air plants, they grow in the wild here!
These desert plants take no chances when it comes to protecting themselves.
The mighty Pacific
Fidgit signing the map at Fass Bike shop in Vincente Guerrero
Fidgit’s knees taking a recovery day
Rocky crap roads leading into Cataviña
Laying it all out before our most remote stretch
Huge cactus are everywhere down here.
After a day of mostly pushing my bike through the sticky clay-mud, this is what it looked like after I scraped it mostly clean.
El Cardon surf camp- we got water here, but wouldn’t recommend it.
Making some lunch in our first town in over 100 kilometers
Riding into Bahia Los Angeles and our first view of the Sea of Cortez
Watching the sun rise with the ever-vigilant one-eyed great dane
Some matching adventure wounds
Scraped knee from my first Endo(going over my handlebars) along a steep and rocky downhill.
Riding along the beaches.
The wildflowers were going crazy as we neared San Ignacio.
Fidgit has a habit of trying all the payphones we pass to see if they actually work. This is soon after we made it to San Ignacio.
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