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Has anyone actually driven out to the marsh and seen any changes? I haven't been out there in over a year. Tom

Can't recall if I posted this before but this is above Old Kane Spring Rd in Carrizo Wash right before it joins San Felipe Creek. We tried for about an hour to get the Bronco out before giving up. Glad you got the FJ out. Nice trip report. Liked the shell pic. Haven't seen any that large. Tom



Bronco by tomteske, on Flickr

Nice trip Wrangler. I once poked around the southern part of the Coyote Mountains in mid-summer after a flash flood, looking for fossils in the deep shade of the canyons. Not too bad if you stay in the shade! Have you seen any bighorn in that range in your trips out there? [ I see from your blog that you've encountered bighorn tracks. ]
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Never knew about this. Looks like an interesting place to visit. Is that 30 feet tall overall or is just the smokestack part 30feet?

THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC ACCESS AREA! You are trespassing by accessing this area. There is a reason it is not vandalized and that is because the public is not legally allowed in this area. Please be responsible and check before you go posting this as a hike and going where you are not allowed. Who ever told you you could go into this area (if you were told) is wrong and giving out bad info.

BorregoWrangler,

Looks like a good time.

Is the road up to Carrizo Mountain something I could get my rig up to?

That's a tough little hike up Mortero Palms to the Goat Canyon area. Looks like someone laid a string of large rocks across the grating parallel to the tracks, perhaps to dissuade mountain bikes? Notice any water around the palms?

Nice report.

Those must have been your groups footprints I followed today doing an out and back from Mortero Palms to the trestle.

I have yet to go that route, always thru the gorge it seems is where I end up going, looks like a good trip again and I like the retro style photos.

Looks like a great trip, glad you guys were able to get out there. That route down Pepperwood and over the saddle into Indian Gorge at one point was a proposed hiking/horse riding trail for the BLM, not sure what ever happened (or not happened) but happy it stayed as is to enjoy. Those cow bones were the ones Tom was showing me how my back was messed up on a trip a few weeks back (actually the spine was off in the wash north of the jeep road).

Did you guys happen to stop at the round water trough at the end of the jeep road near Pepperwood? Did it have ANY water in it or was the pipe dripping?

Where did you get the map that's at the bottom of your trip report? Is there an online source?

The spot where you parked your Tahoe along Indian Gorge road is one of my regular camping spots!

-Florian
edited by Florian on 12/10/2014

Actually no, there is another one out at the end of the jeep road near where Pepperwood trail ends, you can see it on GE. There was dripping water there last time I looked but the cement trough had a hole in it. I wanted to know if it was still dripping as it could have been enough to collect water from. That is a great area, one of my favorites.


BorregoWrangler wrote:

dsefcik wrote:

Looks like a great trip, glad you guys were able to get out there. That route down Pepperwood and over the saddle into Indian Gorge at one point was a proposed hiking/horse riding trail for the BLM, not sure what ever happened (or not happened) but happy it stayed as is to enjoy. Those cow bones were the ones Tom was showing me how my back was messed up on a trip a few weeks back (actually the spine was off in the wash north of the jeep road).

Did you guys happen to stop at the round water trough at the end of the jeep road near Pepperwood? Did it have ANY water in it or was the pipe dripping?

Thanks, Daren! Are you talking about the trough by the old windmill? There was a tiny bit of water that might have been from the rains a few days prior. No water coming from the pipe. I want to get out there again and explore more of Canebrake and Inner Pasture.

Great trip. Have done parts of that trip but would like to try Pepperwood sometime. Did you get see anything that looked like a trail heading up Canebrake toward Thing Valley? It's listed on old topo maps but can't really see anything on GE. Tom

The other fire blackened cave is known as the "wallace" cave, nick named after W.J. Wallace. He also did archeo digs at Indian Hill and many other sites.

So does this count as 2 hikes and you get a weekend off??

BorregoWrangler wrote:

dsefcik wrote:

So does this count as 2 hikes and you get a weekend off??

Haha... No, I counted this outing as one hike, since we did them back-to-back and they were so close together. I do wanna head out to Torote again and get back into those valleys.

My next hike will either be Eagle Peak, between Descanso and Julian, or Sweetwater River Trail to Mother Miguel Mountain.

So a buddy and I were running around the Cedar Creek/Three Sisters area last Saturday and when I opened the register on Eagle Pk and recognized your 52 hike project in action! Eagle Pk register pic.jpg" /> It took me until now to figure out how to post a picture, hence the delay on posting this (thanks for the advice Daren, my first forum pic's!!!!!!). I included a great view of Eagle from a peak to the east. Eagle Pk from peak to east.jpg" /> Happy hiking, awesome TR's on here lately!

-Robert
edited by ImpatientHiker on 1/21/2015 I give up! Just imagine a picture of what you wrote in the Eagle Pk register...
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BorregoWrangler wrote:

I host my photos on Photobucket then post the link here. You might try that too. (You'll have to edit and the update the post again for it to show up.)

BW, what I do is after I write mt Blogger post I just select all the text and photos with the mouse, copy and then paste into the forum post and it all shows up!

BorregoWrangler wrote:

Nice trip there, Daren! I'm gonna try to get out there this weekend and camp somewhere in the gorge.

I may be out again, feel free to email me if you want any company. FYI the gorge is pretty cleared out until just south of Goat Cyn, after that it is all tamarisk and ticks, I pulled 5 off me Sat night at camp.

Glad you finally made it out there John..that boulder has had many a camper I am sure, we always pass by it and I remember one trip it was full of campfire wood and undocumented remnants. In the past with the Tamarisk getting that far from the north end was nearly impossible unless the creek bed was totally dry. You can find some of my previous posts showing lots of flowing water.

@Ziphius: There are usually pockets of water the further south you go into the gorge past goat cyn but I would not put anything on a map for a trip unless it was noted in a recent visit or a very wet year. There are currently pockets of water in the gorge from de anza all the way to goat cyn but they are far apart, not too deep or in deep thickets of tamarisk and ticks. Definitly usable for water sources though if needed.

Daren

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How long did it take you to do that hike? We did a similar hike in 2004 and it took us easily 8 hours. The gorge basin was so overgrown as were thinking we needed machete's to get through in some spots. And we thought it would be the *easy* way...
Gallery:
http://www.gothicsandiego.com/shoots/geotrestle/