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Re: Submitted For Your Approval - Forty-eighth Installment
Author: BOB2
Date: 05-05-2022 - 10:21
D. B. Arthur Wrote:
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> V Wrote:
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> > How safe is the old right of way these days to
> exploration? Are they used by cartels and
> smugglers for drugs and illegals?
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> I don't know. Carriso Gorge is north of
> Interstate 8 so all the illegal activities you
> mention are probably centered around that major
> highway.
A friend has property just west of there, south of the freeway, near Jacumba, with a fine view of the RR where it enters the Canyon north of the freeway. This is where we used shoot on his private land. We used to have to go check down in the arroyo where he had our "gong" target set up, to make sure there were no illegals hiding in the arroyo in the firing line.
Since they built that section of wall, in 2010, at Jacumba, very few folks come that way now, and we don't see many any more. For all this hoopla you hear, I can't even find a day laborer at Home Depot anymore for some of the grunt work and clean up I need done.
There are a lot of ICE helicopters, drones, and lots of ICE patrols in trucks along the border, that are more likely to stop you and check you out, if you are poking around close to the border. So, you are probably a whole lot safer there at the border than at LAUPT these days. The SDAE is all pretty accessible, but with a long hike to things like the bridge.
This is a place you need to be careful, take water, and watch out for plenty of rattlesnakes. This is not the tourist season in Jacumba, however. Best "railfanning" season for Carrizo is in winter or early spring. There is still a lot of rail "junk" in town, and they used to run gravel hauling hi-rail trucks on part of the tracks, although I think that is gone now.
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> V Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > How safe is the old right of way these days to
> exploration? Are they used by cartels and
> smugglers for drugs and illegals?
>
> I don't know. Carriso Gorge is north of
> Interstate 8 so all the illegal activities you
> mention are probably centered around that major
> highway.
A friend has property just west of there, south of the freeway, near Jacumba, with a fine view of the RR where it enters the Canyon north of the freeway. This is where we used shoot on his private land. We used to have to go check down in the arroyo where he had our "gong" target set up, to make sure there were no illegals hiding in the arroyo in the firing line.
Since they built that section of wall, in 2010, at Jacumba, very few folks come that way now, and we don't see many any more. For all this hoopla you hear, I can't even find a day laborer at Home Depot anymore for some of the grunt work and clean up I need done.
There are a lot of ICE helicopters, drones, and lots of ICE patrols in trucks along the border, that are more likely to stop you and check you out, if you are poking around close to the border. So, you are probably a whole lot safer there at the border than at LAUPT these days. The SDAE is all pretty accessible, but with a long hike to things like the bridge.
This is a place you need to be careful, take water, and watch out for plenty of rattlesnakes. This is not the tourist season in Jacumba, however. Best "railfanning" season for Carrizo is in winter or early spring. There is still a lot of rail "junk" in town, and they used to run gravel hauling hi-rail trucks on part of the tracks, although I think that is gone now.
