Feb 19, 2014 Anza Borrego State Park, Culp Valley

The road into our campsite and the road to the trailhead were sandy, rutted and studded with rocks. Both required a 4WD vehicle to access.

 

This is our primitive campsite. Although Spartan, it protected us from the wind.

 

On the way to the trailhead we noticed a Coyote as well as something called coyote melons. According to the signage, this softball size melon was used by ancestral people as food and medicine. I tasted it and thought it was dry and incredibly bitter.

 

 

We spent the day hiking through the area pictured below. You can see evidence of a wildfire started by an illegal campfire 3 years ago.