Left Palm Springs and headed about 1.5 hours south to Anza Boreggo State Park. The park is a huge, somewhat unregulated, essentially roadless park in the southern California desert that is basically a huge open space to explore with 4x4 vehicles. My phone busted on the morning we were leaving, so we had no GPS and had to navigate off of memory of the maps of the area. We couldn't find the canyon we wanted the first day, but we found it on the second day, which forced us to see a bunch of the park we wouldn't otherwise have seen. After Anza, we headed east intended to camp at the Imperial Sand Dunes, but it was so heinously windy, we just explored for a little bit, then bailed to a wind sheltered campsite closer to Palo Verde.
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| Split Mountain Road. |
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| Split Mountain Road |
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| Hiking up another wash. |
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| Somewhere in Fish Creek |
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| Fish Creek |
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| North Fish Creek |
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| Anza Borrego camp |
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| Camp |
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| Olla Wash. |
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| Olla Wash |
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| Narrow spot in Sandstone Canyon. |
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| Lots of little scrambles up the slot canyon. |
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| Side canyon in Sandstone Canyon |
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| Sandstone Canyon |
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| Dirt runway |
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| Running on the Imperial Sand Dunes |
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| Imperial Sand Dunes. Yup, we sorta got stuck here momentarily, but low air pressure and a wood board got us out. |
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| Sunset over Chocolate Mountains |
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| Colorado River |
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| Camp on Colorado River with some drunk freak who came up on us when we were having our campfire. He's lucky he didn't get shot. |
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| New waste tank system. |
