Environmental issues regarding Anza Borrego
Bighorn Sheep Sighting in Anza Borrego
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surfponto Administrator Posts: 1366
2/8/2010
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We had the amazing experience a couple of weeks back of running into a "Bachelor Herd" of Desert Bighorns.
This was close to Indian Hill
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hikerdmb Posts: 423
2/8/2010
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I read your post (somewhere else on this site) about looking for the railroad camp in the Indian Hill area and noticed your pics of the pictographs. Did you find the tank just across from the cave? A short distance up the hill. Was it full of water? Make sure you go back again and search for the camp it is a cool find. There is a shelter that is built with cans. It has a neat feeling to walk around and know how many people were there and working on the tracks.
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surfponto Administrator Posts: 1366
2/9/2010
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Hi,
We never did find the railroad camp ruins. We walked N N/W of Indian Hill until we got to the mountian and then followed the stream bed North.
I am thinking of trying again this coming weekend.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Bob
hikerdmb wrote:
I read your post (somewhere else on this site) about looking for the railroad camp in the Indian Hill area and noticed your pics of the pictographs. Did you find the tank just across from the cave? A short distance up the hill. Was it full of water? Make sure you go back again and search for the camp it is a cool find. There is a shelter that is built with cans. It has a neat feeling to walk around and know how many people were there and working on the tracks.
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hikerdmb Posts: 423
2/9/2010
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I tried to attach a scanned copy of the map of that area. But the site would not let me attach anything over 15kb and that didn't work so well. If you have an old Sweeny Pass topo map that would help. If not, try going a bit more northwest from the cave toward a ridge that runs north south. The tracks are on the west side of this ridge. The camp is in a fairly flat area a very short distance south and east from the south end of that ridge and north of the jeep road. This is all from memory from a bunch of years ago. First time in that area we went from Mortero Palms over the mountains to Goat Canyon and then followed the tracks north through Indian Hill area and back to the truck. NO trains were running then so we went through all the tunnels except I think one was totally caved in. Have since backpacked in a couple of times and day hiked in a couple of times to the Indian Hill area. If you want to PM me I can send you a larger than 15 kb scan of the map with a big X where I remember the camp being located.
David
By the way are the guy who has been putting up reports and running this site for the last couple of years?
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surfponto Administrator Posts: 1366
2/9/2010
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Thanks.
Yeah I am the one that does this site.
It started out as a photo album thing back in 2002 and then kind of grew. Still kind of small though.
I do know that ridge you are talking about. We stayed on the east side last trip which was the problem.
I would love to get a copy of the map so I will PM you.
We are going to head out Saturday morning and probably hit the Mud Caves in Arroyo Tapiado also.
Thanks,
Bob
hikerdmb wrote:
I tried to attach a scanned copy of the map of that area. But the site would not let me attach anything over 15kb and that didn't work so well. If you have an old Sweeny Pass topo map that would help. If not, try going a bit more northwest from the cave toward a ridge that runs north south. The tracks are on the west side of this ridge. The camp is in a fairly flat area a very short distance south and east from the south end of that ridge and north of the jeep road. This is all from memory from a bunch of years ago. First time in that area we went from Mortero Palms over the mountains to Goat Canyon and then followed the tracks north through Indian Hill area and back to the truck. NO trains were running then so we went through all the tunnels except I think one was totally caved in. Have since backpacked in a couple of times and day hiked in a couple of times to the Indian Hill area. If you want to PM me I can send you a larger than 15 kb scan of the map with a big X where I remember the camp being located.
David
By the way are the guy who has been putting up reports and running this site for the last couple of years?
<em>edited by surfponto on 2/9/2010</em>
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2624
6/30/2011
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Just practicing for the bighorn count this weekend, looks like 6 rams and one ewe..?? Lucky ewe...
surfponto wrote:
We had the amazing experience a couple of weeks back of running into a "Bachelor Herd" of Desert Bighorns.
This was close to Indian Hill
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http://www.darensefcik.com
http://www.carrizogorge.com
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surfponto Administrator Posts: 1366
6/30/2011
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Pretty good.
That was an awesome day.
I hope you get to see a bunch
Bob
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