Anza Borrego Desert State Park, Part 2

You can find part one of my report here.I got a late start on Valentine's Day. Got a voice mail from my wife, who loved the roses I had had delivered, so I felt ok about not being there. After packing up, I headed east on S22, south on S3, west on the 78 to the junction with S2, the main north-south route through the western part of ABDSP. I proceeded south for around 30 miles through the awesome Colorado desert landscape. The signed entrance to Canyon Sin Nombre is just beyond Sweeney Pass. I aired down to 18psi and headed in.

The trail ranges from easy to very easy, although soft sand might increase the difficulty for 2wd vehicles, and the sandstone canyon walls are fascinating. Stopped for lunch, assured a jeep driver that he was, in fact, headed in the right direction, and continued on. After 4 miles, I reached an obvious junction. Right, east, takes you a mile and a half to Carrizo Marsh. I wish I had gone, because a guy I met down the trail showed me pictures and it looked bitchin. Left, west, takes you back to S2, and straight ahead takes you to Arroyo Seco Del Diablo. I went straight. About one mile later, I reached a fork. Left takes you through Vallecito Creek. I stayed right and entered the Arroyo. This part of the trail is an alien looking landscape for sure.

I ran into two guys in a mean looking jeep cooking lunch. They showed me pictures of Carrizo Marsh, offered me a brat, and assured me that the Diablo Dropoff would present no real challenge, so I relaxed a bit and then headed on out. After maybe five miles or so, the trail climbs out of the arroyo, and meanders across the desert with awesome views all around. Then, abruptly, I found myself at the Diablo Dropoff. I looked as easy as I had been told, and led me into Broken Shaft Gulch. The 3/4 mile Gulch was narrow and rocky, even technical, and I self-spotted my way through. 2wd trucks will make it, but you'll need to pay attention. I reached the Fish Creek trail, and headed northeast towards the paved Split Mountain Road. Fish Creek is mostly wide and sandy, and well travelled. There were too many jeeps bombing their way through at speed for my taste, so I rolled up my windows and headed back to my previous night's camp.

Exhausted, I had dinner and sacked out. Woke up early and headed home:

 

Nice!!

 

So is this all doable in 2wd?

 

I am going to go do it on my 2WD

 

Went with a Two 2wd vehicles my last trip there, you will be fine.

 

is there anything there that is challenging?

 

@SDkoncepts808 pretty much half of the trip I did with pelfreybilt

 

To my knowledge there are a couple of tougher spots, but most of what I saw was pretty straightforward.