The El Camino Del Diablo: America's Most Dangerous Backcountry Adventure

[wagner_joe]

Great set of trip reports.. Mark, I like the write-up on the BP.... Thanks for sharing!

 

[DaktariEd]

Cool articles guys....

 

[RHINO]

nice read, i didnt see a date when you were there,,, i saw 6 rigs in the desert last week but didnt recognize any of them, coulda been you?

 

[woodwizard]

I was there for the 2 weekends prior to Christmas. I anticipate returning sometime in January and Febuary. I want to spend sometime there when the flowers bloom.

 

[JohnnyS]

The tail end of February should be good timing for flowers, if you're lucky it'll be wet and you may have to cross some water east of the Pinacate Lava Flow and at San Cristobal wash.
Hopefully you'll have two vehicles with the proper recovery gear as these spots have sucked in a fair amount of vehicles over the years.
Pray for rain!
Take it easy,

 

[Redline]

Read and enjoyed it Mark

Shameless, gutless, yellow-bellied plug coming......
Read all about it in JPFreek Magazine June/July 2007, by a certain dude whom you might know.


Otherwise, yes, you need to get down there and drive this trail yourself. Nothing that a fridge and a full tank of gas can't handle.

 

[BajaTaco]

Excellent report and photos. I really enjoyed reading it. Are you sure it was 2005 when you met the ExPo convoy? I could have sworn it might have been you I met in 2006.

Your thoughts and prose on the area makes me think of when my wife (then GF) and I backpacked into Organ Pipe back before those roads were closed and we just hiked around "out there" with no trail to follow. That was one of the best backpacking trips I have ever done. I remember finding an old saddle frame and horn in a little drainage ditch under a bush. I wondered what the story was, and how it ended up being left there who knows how long ago. The organ pipe skeletons... the rocks... the stars... good memories!

 

[woodwizard]

Chris, my first Expo encounter was in 2005 while I was working in LA. We came about the road by combing maps and having a desire to find out what it was about. On my 5th time through, the more I learn, the more I realize that I don't know anything. I crossed a backpackers path, near Tule Well, that started in Organ Pipe and was following, crosscountry, the path of the historic, natural tanks through to Yuma. I was the first person he had seen in 4 days. I would have loved to pick his brain. I cannot speak loud enough about this treasure in our country. Perri

 

[Redline]

Enjoyed the link to that 2006 trip Chris.

Excellent report and photos. I really enjoyed reading it. Are you sure it was 2005 when you met the ExPo convoy? I could have sworn it might have been you I met in 2006.

Your thoughts and prose on the area makes me think of when my wife (then GF) and I backpacked into Organ Pipe back before those roads were closed and we just hiked around "out there" with no trail to follow. That was one of the best backpacking trips I have ever done. I remember finding an old saddle frame and horn in a little drainage ditch under a bush. I wondered what the story was, and how it ended up being left there who knows how long ago. The organ pipe skeletons... the rocks... the stars... good memories!