border trail, socal

[nquaint]

Did a little wheeling today, don't even know the name but it was about an hour east of San Diego, past Corral Canyon but before Ocotillo, I was just following my buddy in his jeep. No crazy obstacles or anything but it was a good time. Some pics and vids if you're interested.

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[kellogg]

Looks like a blast! Your truck looks awesome. I'm interested to know where this is, did the trailhead start off the 8?

 

[nquaint]

Looks like a blast! Your truck looks awesome. I'm interested to know where this is, did the trailhead start off the 8?

yeah the trail starts right after the exit off the 8, I'll get the name here in a bit .

 

[nquaint]

ok this is the trail head here,
48549 Old Highway 80
Jacumba, CA 91934

It's called "smugglers cave", there are some cool caves in the hills you can walk around. Border Patrol was all over the place, saw no less then 6 separate Jeep patrols and a helicopter. Makes sense though because you are pretty close to Mexico over there.
We took the trail going east for a while then ended up looping back around and exiting from the trail coming in from the south. Took like 3 hours or so not counting breaks.

 

[kellogg]

wow that really is close to the border... Looks like fun though I might have to check that trail out sometime.