SoCal Event - Anza Borrego Desert - December 10, 2011

[Kurt]

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[Kurt]

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[LagunaH1]

Sorry, won't be able to make this run. I'm committed to a charity event that day.

 

[Sircode13]

I'm thinking of going, but want to know how long to Anza-Borrego from Murrieta in an H1? I have a friend and I need to know how early to get him up.

 

[kitty]

i plan on attending!!!

 

[Kurt]

I'm thinking of going, but want to know how long to Anza-Borrego from Murrieta in an H1? I have a friend and I need to know how early to get him up.

Given your position your best bet is 79 east to San Felipe Rd then S22 East. It's about 70 or so miles but it's 2 lanes and twisty, nice scenic drive, so I figure worse case 2 hours. That's the way I went the last 2 times coming from LA, but this time I figure I'll get 10 east and cut down and back.

 

[MECH Mike]

Count me in for this one again. It was fun even though it was 120 degrees and I melted off the bottom of my shoes. The trails are as easy, or as hard as you want them to be and have great scenery.

 

[3Hummers]

Kitty has an H1. I will be missing this event. I am committed to the Tustin Hummer/Tustin Mission Charity event on the 10th.

 

[cbetts]

Thanks for taking this on, Kurt. Unfortunately, work has my full attention probably until February.

 

[Kurt]

Count me in for this one again. It was fun even though it was 120 degrees and I melted off the bottom of my shoes. The trails are as easy, or as hard as you want them to be and have great scenery.

Hey 120F heat means smores that makes itself!

Marshmellows by Halfshaft, on Flickr

 

[Portager]

I'm in for this trip. Looking forward to seeing the calcite mine.

 

[06 H3]

I cant make this one :roll:

 

[Mb30sdl]

The plan is to meet up at 9:00am at Christmas Circle, a large traffic circle in town that is easy to find and has plenty of parking.

I am confused, what town?

and are we playing in off road park?

 

[MECH Mike]

33.257063,-116.375567 Christmas Circle

 

[Kurt]

Borrego springs , ca.There's a large part of the park that's a designated ohv area so that will be the afternoon.

 

[Zach]

Count me in. Anyone from OC want to meet up for the ride down?

 

[H3-ING]

I am heading down friday for the weekend. Weather looking to be good. Should be real nice out there.

 

[WarMongur]

I am heading down friday for the weekend. Weather looking to be good. Should be real nice out there.

U shoveled out ur rig then?? :giggle:

 

[cbetts]

U shoveled out ur rig then?? :giggle:

Yeah, you kinda buried his truck, didn't ya?

 

[Kurt]

I may drop Fonts point from the run, it's basically a dead end dirt road to an overlook of the area. Calcite mine has a similar view, so We can save an hour for other fun stuff by dropping Fonts point. We may do that Sunday morning for folks who overnight there.

The Truckhaven obstacle course has picnic facilites so chances are we'll break for lunch on the obstacle course provided if it's not too crowded there [the backup area would be the campground off S22].

I may dart out to Calcite mine around 6am on Saturday morning for a mini prerun to check things out, it's a short trail and if we get a huge group I want to make sure theres room for all of us up there and turn around and head back down.

If there is a large group It's not going to be as big a problem since most of this run has obsticles in big open wide areas.

For example at Devils slide, there's 3-4 small mountains with trails where you can climb up one side and drop down the other, or transverse the ridge perpendicular to the steep climbs. This would allow a large group to split up into 3-4 small groups to play around for a while then we can convoy up later and head to the next area.

Calcite Mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AZSfc2lMyQ

Devils slide:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qaC1GuH3_o&feature=related


Truckhaven OHV Courses [Green Blue and Black diamond raided obstacles about 20-30 of them]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJlAohyGVOE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C526Oxh_b-0&feature=related

 

[H3-ING]

U shoveled out ur rig then?? :giggle:

Just today finally-- Shopvac out. Roof, Roof rack, sunroof, hood vent openings, front seat, back seat. Both you and your daughter are following me next time :evil:...:HA:

 

[Sierra H3]

Anza Borrego Trip

This is forming up to being a terrific trip, but I won't be making it. Looking forward to seeing some great pics in the trail report though.:sigh:

 

[06 H3]

those courses look fun kurt! especially the rocker knocker obstacle. Cant wait for pics

 

[Kurt]

I'll try a few of the hard ones, but no one is expected to do anything they aren't comfortable with. Especially when you have buggies with no bodywork with 40" tires having issues and getting stuck, there's some killer obstacles there for people to try out.

 

[cbetts]

Ah yes, I have some good memories of that area:




I seem to remember someone got stuck on the log crossing and needed to be strapped . . .