Kilted Desert Trip to Anza Borrego

[Alan H]

Day Two: Clark Valley The next day (Wednesday) we headed up the Clark Valley, behind Clark Dry Lake. Clark Dry Lake was the site of a well known radio observatory until the late 1980’s. The Army Air Force used it as a landing strip during WWII. I feel like it’s not “right” to go for a trip to the desert and not make it into real “desert”. It’s “no fair” staying in the places where there’s water, for the whole trip! So up Clark Canyon we went…. Up the valley, a little farther than we got (about 9 miles and a 3000 foot elevation gain) are ruins of a Cahuilla Indian village. We hiked about 5 miles past Coyote Mountain, up to the head of Harper Canyon and stopped for lunch, gazing at the pass into Rockhouse Valley and the trail to the Cahuilla homes. Next Year!!!

Me, laughing off the heat in my X-Kilt. Hey, it was only about 80 F.




Here’s a really nice Ocotillo, with Joan in there for “scale”


The view at lunch.