On Sunday we went for an evening drive and hike out to Sin Nombre Canyon in the Anzo-Borrego State Park. The Anzo-Borrego is California's largest state park and is 650,000 acres of desert and mountains. It is also in our backyard. The drive is very interesting in that the off-road trails wind through the passes of the canyon where the stratification of 9 million years of changes to the landscape is extremely evident. Or I guess a few thousand years of several catastrophic events stacked up on top of one another. Depending on which one of my friends is reading this.
We stopped and hiked into one of the slit canyons. I bet Martin that he could not free climb up the end. Then, while we were waiting for him to come down we had a nice picnic dinner of chilled fruit, roasted chicken, and french bread.
Deneen is starting to complain of a lack of things to do in Ocotillo, but there are few places where on a whim you can drive a dozen miles or so and have dinner in a slit canyon in the region's largest state park. It was very cool.
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