Pacific Baja: Rocks and Ledges

Nov. 9 – 15, 2025 (Sat– Sun.)

Location: San Diego, CA and La Bufadora, Baja, MX 

Instructors/Guides: Jen Kleck, Victor Leon, Jeff Atkins

Cost: $1,595 ( includes housing and most meals)

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Everyone that has done this with us has called it one of the best paddling trips they’ve ever done!

Paddle pour-overs, chutes, ledges, caves. Push yourself. Hold back if something makes you nervous. Take in the incredible vistas. Relax in the evenings in Victor Leon’s house overlooking the Pacific. Enjoy great local meals. 

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Join Jen Kleck and Jeff for a week-long trip that will feature several days of rock gardening and exposure to Baja culture!  This trip is for those who have had some rock gardening experience and/or the equivalent of 3* skills.

In addition to the fabulous paddling, the Baja trip has now been extended one additional day to give us some time to experience the (non-paddling) culture of Baja. We will sample street food, check out the local fish markets, visit a vineyard and do wine tasting and/or go to a local brewery.

After traveling by van from San Diego to our base at a house in La Burfadora, we will spend a couple of days playing amidst the rocks and waves of the Pacific coast. The shoreline here is absolutely gorgeous, with mountains rising up from the sea, and massive stone pillars and caves dotting the coast. It is also a paddler’s playground with all kinds of features that are easily accessible and safe. As is always the case with our rock gardening courses, this will be challenge by choice – if you don’t feel comfortable doing something, it’s totally fine to not do it. But you will be thrilled by the challenges you do take on.

Here is the basic agenda for the week:

Saturday Nov 8: fly San Diego; stay hotel

Sunday: AM drive to Ensenada (3 hrs.); food shop; get set up in the house; short afternoon paddle to play at a gigantic blowhole. Stay in Victor’s house which is perched on a cliff overlooking the Pacific.

Monday through Friday: coastal exploration; play in rocks and ledges; paddle pour overs and chutes, find and explore caves; stay at house; local restaurants for dinner some nights.

Saturday: Explore Ensenada markets and street vendors. Late afternoon return to San Diego; stay hotel

Sunday, Nov 16: Fly home.