Five operators execute a deep amphibious strike into Baja's most remote coastline. Enduring long-distance movements across bays, sand dunes, endless beaches and rocky coastlines, the team arrives intact and conducts heavy amphibious operations on the target site for several days before being extracted by locally contracted fisherman.
5 bikes, 5 mules and 5 riders.
Pre-departure gear check.
1 mile down, 14 to go.
5 miles into the ride we met our nemisis, a 30mph head wind.
Fighting the headwind.
One small revolution for man, one tiny revolution on an overloaded head-wind slowed sprocket.
Man down at mile 8 (4 hours of head wind riding).
The final push at mile 10 before the beach disappeared by the incoming tide.
The dunescape between the rising tide and our right flank. We were trapped by the dunes, no longer able to proceed with the bikes or the mules in the quicksand like coastal shoreline.
Bringing it into the wind. The walk-ride walk-ride combo became very old very fast.
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