New Year's Day trip to Anza Borrego DSP

[boyfester]

My son and I utilized the New Year's holiday for a camping trip with our new 4Runner Trail. We ventured out to Anza Borrego Desert State Park and got a surprise with some snow in Temecula, Warner Springs, and Ranchita on the way out. The furnace in our tent trailer got a workout as we went through 1.5 propane tanks because of the cold weather.

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Lots of iron sculptures in and around ABDSP

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Visited Font's Point at sunset

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Casting long shadows at sunrise. That's frost on our truck.

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This is in Split Mountain

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This is called the Anticline

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This picture is in Loop Wash.

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This is in Sandstone Canyon.

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We hiked to the Wind Caves on the way back (also in Split Mtn).

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Cool wind caves along Fish Creek

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This is the Borrego Sink. We got stuck a couple of times but the locking rear differential got us out with no issues, even with the stock tires.

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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.

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The next day we headed to Coyote Canyon. There were some short rocky sections to get to Sheep Canyon and the 4Runner handled them with ease.

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Here is a barrel cactus who kindly held my hat.

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My son scrambling over some of the huge boulders in Cougar Canyon. Lots of waterfalls here.

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Our last night at camp with an almost full moon.

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We woke up early and headed to the Pumpkin Patch. This is along the Arroyo Salado trail.

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