Day Trip to Calico 2-6-10

[red87]

CYi5 and I headed up to Calico today during the ridiculous rainfall to have an adventure. Luckily, the rain mostly stopped except for the occasional drizzle as soon as we got there. I had never been before so I didn't know what to expect. That place is amazing! I've never seen such colors.
Our first stop was to do some target shooting as CYi5 was just given a couple guns. We set up a super awesome shelter to keep out of the slight rainfall as we had some snacks and shot the guns. All it takes is two trucks, a 20'X10' tarp and some bungee cords :elkgrin:

Smallest shotgun shells EVER.

Friend shooting the .22

CYi5 shooting the .22. One of the few times it actually fired.

Once we had shot and ate enough, we continued on our merry way.

 

[red87]

First photo op I had showcasing the beautiful color in the hills.

Cool little spot with a mine dug a little way into the hillside. I've never seen rocks this maroon color.

The aforementioned mine

Doing a little rockwalking

It looks like I stopped here on purpose but really, I just stalled in a nice spot for a picture :victory:

 

[red87]

One of the parts of the trail has tons of mineshafts around it. This is the view from inside one of the. We didn't explore much of this one as the one branch the went any distance was oddly warm and smelled like natural gas. We left that one soon thereafter.

View from inside the part of the mine with good air.

Cool storm clouds taken at the area with all the mines

EXPO sticker!

This doesn't look like that deep of a cut but I my rear tire was a good 18" in the air and my truck was uncomfortably tippy. CYi5's 4Runner makes it look easy however.

Looking the other direction after CYi5 cleared the obstacle

End of our trip in Rainbow Basin

We didn't expect to see anyone there due to the rain but we actually came across 2 camps set up. One of them didn't look too pleased to see us cruise on by. My wave was not returned.
Hopefully we'll get some more pics in here once CYi5 sees this thread and adds the ones he took too. All in all it was a fantastic trip and I'd love to go back again.

 

[adventureduo]

Very nice. One of our favorite areas. Thanks for picking up your shells out there. A ton of people DONT and the place gets trashed.

 

[07 Elephant]

Nice day trip. Thanks for sharing.

 

[red87]

Very nice. One of our favorite areas. Thanks for picking up your shells out there. A ton of people DONT and the place gets trashed.

We do our best to tread lightly. We really do need to take extra care to leave places at least as nice as we found them, especially considering how much of the public views shooting and wheeling. Not doing so is a very good way to lose access to our favorite places.

 

[CYi5]

Shooting is prohibited in the Calico ghost town regional park as well as Odessa Canyon; to the east and the rest of the Calico mountains are fair game as long as you're shooting into a soft backdrop.

Door Malfunction?

Rocky shelves mid-Phillips Loop.

Headed up rock shelves, looking back towards the start of Phillips loop.

265/75 Treadwrights doin' work.

 

[stolenheron]

First photo op I had showcasing the beautiful color in the hills.

hope you don't mind, i'm using this picture in a "Favorite car picture of the day" on another site, with photo credit to this thread. the landscape was too perfect to pass up.

the only way that pic could be better was if you turned that 4runner into a Rover :victory:

 

[red87]

hope you don't mind, i'm using this picture in a "Favorite car picture of the day" on another site, with photo credit to this thread. the landscape was too perfect to pass up.

the only way that pic could be better was if you turned that 4runner into a Rover :victory:

Blasphemy!