Hiking to the rock cabin in RockHouse Canyon Carrizo Gorge Anza Borrego Desert.
Anza Borrego Desert Flower Report March 2015
The southern area of Anza Borrego or as I like to call it, “the forgotten side” of Anza Borrego is often overlooked when it comes to desert flower season. Desert flower seekers tend to frequent the well-known locales near Borrego…
Hiking to the remote Carrizo Palms
Hiking to the remote Carrizo Palms in southern Anza Borrego
Carrizo-Gorge-Railway-Hike
We took a quick overnight trip out to Anza Borrego to hike the tracks a bit and explore the Indian Hill area. I had not been out to the southern Anza Borrego desert since they started construction of the Ocotillo…
Summer Sand Angels in the Anza Borrego Desert
Exploring the Carrizo Gorge area of the Anza Borrego Desert in the summer
Spring hike to the Goat Canyon Trestle in Carrizo Gorge
Spring hike to the famous Goat Canyon Trestle in Carrizo Gorge
The hunt for the elusive Carrizo Gorge pictographs
Deep in the rugged expanse of Carrizo Gorge in the Anza Borrego desert, there is a small cave of pictographs that few have ever seen. The area is surrounded by large unstable mountains, choked with catclaw, and littered with large…
Railroad Construction Camp in Anza Borrego
Join us as we search for an old railroad construction camp deep in the Anza Borrego Desert. Our trip began with a late afternoon stop at the Lazy Lizard desert bar in Ocotillo. Mary and I had planned to head…
Hiking Carrizo Gorge To Goat Canyon
Well I have been studying Google maps as well as my GPS map software and it looked like it was possible to hike along Carrizo Gorge/Creek trail to the mouth of Goat Canyon. If you have been reading my BLOG…
Hiking To The Line Shack In Rockhouse Canyon
Join us as we search for the hidden cattleman’s line shack of Rockhouse Canyon in the Carrizo Gorge Wilderness in the southern Anza Borrego Desert I read about a spot called RockHouse Canyon so I convinced Mary to take a…
Hiking from Mortero Palms to The Goat Canyon Trestle
History At the time it was built the Carrizo Gorge Track in the southern portion of Anza Borrego was called the “Impossible Railroad” due to the fact that it required the construction of 17 tunnels and numerous trestles to negotiate…