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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Feb 20, 2019 - 06:42pm PT
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that park is nice until the wind sends the settling ponds fragrance westward...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 20, 2019 - 06:56pm PT
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Although the area was previously a sanctuary from other states plagued by the drug wars, by mid-summer Baja California Sur had the fifth highest murder rate of Mexico's 32 states, even as homicides in the country as a whole hit record levels.
The population in Los Cabos—the municipality encompassing San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas— was about 44,000 in 1990. By 2015 it had risen to about 288,000.
This was the latest imposition of the cartel-fueled violence in Los Cabos. Of the 232 homicide investigations opened by the middle of last summer, those that garnered the most attention were not those in the colonias occupied by Mexican citizens, but those that had spilled into the tourist zones and resort areas. One month earlier at Palmilla resort, a mile up the beach from Zippers, three men had been killed in a grisly shootout with automatic weapons. News reports, even in the Mexican media, focused mostly on these three killings and not the other six that had occurred elsewhere in the state that same weekend.
Following the Palmilla shooting, the managing director of the Los Cabos Tourism Board, Rodrigo Esponda, assured the Los Angeles Times that "unlike the recent terrorists in Europe, Mexico's gangsters rarely purposefully target general society." And yet just two months earlier, the Mexican newspaper Reforma had reported that a mass grave of 18 men and women had been discovered on the road between San Jose del Cabo and Cabo Pulmo National Park on the East Cape—a reminder that these killings are not always so neatly targeted. A number of reports on the Palmilla beach shooting that made their way into the English-speaking media also omitted the fact that, in addition to the three people killed, two bystanders had also been shot and rushed to the hospital.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Feb 21, 2019 - 02:12am PT
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Food is good, but pricey. I prefer a blue cheese burger and a shake from Mono Cone.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 21, 2019 - 07:55am PT
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Remember hula hoops? I’ll stick with the Still Life in Independence. I guess I’m just partial
to crotchety owners and genuinely good food. Last we were there she had been slow cooking her stew for 2 days.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Feb 21, 2019 - 09:36am PT
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Overpriced, cliche-infested place, tourist trap.
Tend to agree, but they do serve a better breakfast than Nicely's.
Safest thing I found to eat at Nicely's is the oatmeal.
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Ryan K
Gym climber
the pit
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Feb 21, 2019 - 09:44am PT
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Mono Mart biscuits, burritos, or pastries for breakfast, Mono Cone Western Bacon Cheeseburger, Mono Mart burritos, or Epic Cafe (a little pricey but delicious) for lunch and dinner!
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