Talk about a trip you took out to Anza Borrego
Indian Hill and June Wash
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hikerdmb Posts: 423
3/21/2010
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I finally made it to Indian Hill this weekend. I had tried to do the hike a couple weeks ago but a rainy windy day caused a short delay for this hike. It has been many years since we have hiked to the cave but it was well worth the wait. Saturday was a beautiful day, warm with a nice breeze and plenty of blue skies.
We left the crowded wash and traveled across the flats only to find the huge shelter cave full of a troop of boy scouts out for a night. So we changed course and headed for the tank. The tank was very full and my dog Wylie enjoyed a cool dip after the hike in. He is a 100 pound Golden Retriever so that should give you some idea about the depth of the water in the tank.
The view from the tank is absolutely beautiful.
After our visit to the tank we headed over to the cave and waited for most of the people to leave then climbed up and took a few pics of the beautiful pictographs inside the cave.
We then left the cave area and headed toward the Railroad camp and the old jeep trail.
We figured if we hiked back to the truck by this route it would be a little less crowded and it was. We did not see another person till we got back to the truck. Although we did hear the boy scouts having fun somewhere across the desert. We did however, see many beautiful flowers on this part of the hike.
From the Indian Hill area we drove back out to S-2 and then north to June Wash where we would spend the night. We had a great campsite and campfire and awoke to a beautiful sunrise.
Sunday was very overcast but there were plenty of flowers in this area of the park to keep my attention off the sky. I took a little stroll up a side wash off of the main June Wash and found lots of Brown Eyed Primrose,
Desert Lilies,
and lots of little yellow flowers that I think are California Suncup.
There were many other flowers in this area, Arizona Lupine, Sand Verbena, Desert Dandelions,Chicory, Desert Pincusion, a few Cholla, and more. There was also a great view of Sombrero Peak.
We finished our trip with a drive into Borrego Springs for breakfast. I have NEVER seen so many people in Borrego Springs in my 25 + years of going to ABDSP.
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