A 2-day trip to Anza Borrego to do a little hiking and offroading, but mostly to see the desert flowers blooming. With the wet year, the bloom was forecast to be pretty spectacular, peaking around the second week of March.
After a two-hour drive from Taos Ct. we arrived at The Slot, one of the most popular hikes in Southern California. It isn’t a long hike (about 2.7 miles) and there is not a significant elevation change (298 feet). However, the beginning of the trail drops into a creek channel eroded in badlands type of formation that does get extremely narrow in spots. It then opens up into a comfortable stream channel that has cliffs on both sides. All was well until we had to climb out of the channel up onto the ridges above the stream. All 298 feet of the elevation that we lost going downstream was recovered in one relatively short, steep climb to the top of the bounding ridge. We survived and enjoyed our hike immensely.
We headed back north to Borrego Springs and hunted out a great little Mexican restaurant for a well earned lunch. The photos below are from the hike.
