My son and I utilized the New Year's holiday for another run with the new truck. This time we ventured out to Anza Borrego DSP and got a surprise with some snow in Temecula, Warner Springs, and Ranchita on the way out.
Lots of iron sculptures in and around ABDSP
Visited Font's Point at sunset
Casting long shadows at sunrise
This is in Fish Creek (Split Mountain)
This is called the Anticline in Split Mountain
This was a sand wash adjacent to Fish Creek called Loop Wash.
This is in Sandstone Canyon. My parents' Tahoe also was able to squeeze through the fallen rock section.
We hiked to the Wind Caves on the way back (also in Split Mtn).
Cool wind caves along Fish Creek
This is the Borrego Sink. We had to use the locking rear differential to get through some sticky mud just past this picture.
The next day we headed to the Calcite Mine. We tried out the crawl control and it worked superbly but this was as far as I was willing to go. The 4Runner began to teeter on 3 wheels over towards the Palm Slot Canyon below on the left-side and freaked me out. I decided to back up and save this for another day.
The next day we headed to Coyote Canyon. I didn't take any pictures as I was driving but as soon as my "spotter" dad sends me the pics he took, I'll post them here. There were some short rocky sections to get to Sheep Canyon and the 4Runner handled them with ease. Here is a barrel cactus who kindly held my hat.
My son scrambling over some of the huge boulders in Cougar Canyon. Lots of waterfalls here.
Our last night at camp with an almost full moon.
We launched some rockets too.
We woke up early and headed to the Pumpkin Patch. This is along the Arroyo Salado trail.