Somewhere on one of my old computers or perhaps an old SD card, I have pics of my favorite adventures with the 69 Patrol. But, after looking high and low for them, I only found a couple that didn't really show the beautiful scenery of the places we visited in the Patrol. Hopefully I'll find the other pics and share them.
Part of the reason we had a Patrol, was to explore the Sierra Madre and deserts of Northern Mexico. The Patrol went anywhere there were tracks in front of it, and was super-well built, so we felt confident taking into remote places. The Frontera, as it is called in Mexico, is roughly the Mexican equivalent of the American West. Just like the American West, there were deep canyons, forest-covered mountains, ghost towns, abandoned railroad lines and cliff dwellings to explore, only it was a lot wilder and a less crowded than the American "wild west", which imho is overcrowded and overdeveloped.
So we loaded up the Patrol with tools and extra parts and followed an old Spanish trail ("Camino Real") that led from the copper mines near Silver City across the desert flats into Mexico as we could follow it. These were the days before Google Earth or quality GPS', so navigation was hit or miss. here is a segment of the trail on the US side of the border:
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