The last 3 weekends have been cold and rainy in San Diego so I decided to go out to Anza Borrego instead where it has been in the low 80's and sunny. First trip out was to Bisnaga Wash. This is a wash that flows from the Vallecito Mtns and is a potential backpack trip for me up to Whale Peak.
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| Entrance to Bisnaga Wash and the Vallecito Mtns in the background |
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| Going up the wash |
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| Looking up the "trail" towards the base of the mtns |
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| Ocotillo |
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| Looking back down towards highway |
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| This is catclaw country |
I also went out to Inner Pasture, this is an area just north of Canebrake and sits between Agua Caliente, Moonlight Canyon and Red Top. I don't think too many people go here, the only signs of life I saw were actually 4 sets of foot prints heading out of the canyon, illegal immigrants for sure. There were signs of illegal traffic in the wash, discarded, faded water bottles, clothing and even a 5 peso coin. There were a lot of animal tracks and scat, deer, coyote, mountain lion, etc.
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| Entrance to the canyon |
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| This was about a 4' dry fall |
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| Big Horn sheep or deer maybe |
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| Trash bag full of clothing for the illegal traffic |
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| Some camera filter trickery, the Sawtooth mtns are in the distance |
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| Large concentration of mtn lion scat, the one in the middle was fresh and still had flies on it |
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| The many morteros in the area are clues of past indian occupation |
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| Arriving back to the truck at sunset I tried some more camera filters on the Vallecito Mtns |
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| Moonrise over the Coyote Mtns |
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| This was the GPS track of my hike |
I went out with a friend and his wife the other day to try and find the elusive Solstice Cave. I did a lot of searching on the Internet and was only able to find vague references to it's general location. We hiked around for about 3 hours and finally Bob's wife found it while we were looking elsewhere. This cave is supposed to have some significance for the indians way back when, a ceremonial site and summer/winter solstice. Bob wrote up a nice trip report on his website
AnzaBorrego.net
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| A collage of photos from Solstice Cave |
You can see more photos of Anza Borrego here
http://picasaweb.google.com/daren.sefcik
That was a great find Daren,
ReplyDeleteGlad you were with us to discover the Solstice Cave,
What's next ? :-)
Bob
Hey Daren,
ReplyDeleteHere is my write-up of the trip.
http://www.anzaborrego.net/Travel/AnzaBorrego/post/The-search-for-the-hidden-Solstice-Cave-in-Indian-Valley.aspx
Lets hike out there on the next summer solstice.
Bob