San Diego East County Run....In Honor of Agent Rosas

[Zam15]

I would like to give a big thanks to SWR for showing us such a beautiful area, its always amazing what you can find over the next hill. :clapsmile
It was nice meeting everyone out on the trail and I look forward to doing it again.

It was such a clear day you could see from the border all the way to the Salton Sea :Wow1:

Some kind of structure that we think might have been used for some of the mining activity? It had seen better days.

 

[Zam15]

BlackX and his Xterra:

XJ_Mike:

The amazing border fence.... Can you see it?

Getting ready to make a run for the border?

Some nice empty beverages someone left on the trail.

Visiting another country: :ylsmoke:

Lots of unusual items can be found around the area.

Zam15 (Me) - BlackX - XJMike.

 

[Zam15]

On the move.

Lots of tires got airtime on this run.

Its impressive what a good driver can do with no lockers. All you need is to do is keep on trying until you find the line that works. The little 4runner that could :elkgrin:

 

[Zam15]

Advanced spotting via mirrors and CB :costumed-smiley-007

The convoy.

The Civil Air Patrol sure did like us

Last but not least ARRR! This has to be the longest living and will traveled antenna ball pirate I have ever met.

 

[suntinez]

Thanks for that info Mike, glad ya'll had fun.

poof! there are pics now, looks like a great day

 

[ExpoMike]

Pics Uploaded

Well, I got the pics uploaded. Here are some hightlights. The full gallery of them can be found at, http://gallery.lisaandmike.org/inkopah

Group Shot

 

[ExpoMike]

Hey, what's SWR doing in Mexico??? Maybe looking for chips 'n salsa :sombrero:

Border Fence... not quite done yet.

Long, winding, bumpy road.

 

[ExpoMike]

SWR climbing up the road to the mines

Making it up the worst part of the trail

Great views

One of the many mine shafts in the area

SWR lifting a tire

Taking a break to check out the area

 

[ExpoMike]

After we got back to the main road, three of the group needed to head back home for prior engagements. SWR and us went to the northside of I-8 freeway to check out the old overland stage route. There were some tight spot that the Land Cruiser and Xterra may have had problems with. It was a really neat route but man I would not have wanted to travel over it by horse drawn buggy. :Wow1:

Much of the road is along a built shelf

Sure don't want to fall of that edge

Built up area to cross a wash out. Look at the size of the bolders compared to SWR's wheels.

At the end, a water trough that is fed by a moutain spring

Old horse pens from most likely a hundred years ago

At the end. The gaurdrail you see is I-8. I would have never known this was here without SWR showing us.

Well that's it. Again, check the gallery for all 67 pics and thank again Mark for a great day!!!!

 

[RocKrawler]

It looks like most of that trail would be full size friendly!

 

[BlackX]

It looks like most of that trail would be full size friendly!

Most of the trail is, but there were a few spots we had to squeeze past a a couple boulders and a dropoff.

 

[BlackX]

Difficult climb up toward elliot Mine.

 

[BlackX]

Peak of Elliot Mine

Elliot Mine

Border Patrol agent who came to check us out. He was hiking in full gear with vest, machine gun, pistol, backpack. He decided to stay and keep an eye out from the peak. He said it's a well known smuggling gulch with traffic on a daily basis. We told him we hadn't seen anyone but he assured us the smugglers had seen us.

Couple more shots of the border from his vantage point.

Coming down the Elliot Mine trail

A Coyote head shaped hole in a rock. Clever graffiti or smugglers symbol?

 

[BlackX]

Thanks to SWR for arranging the trip and being an informative guide. It was great meeting new people and seeing an area I hadn't explored before.

 

[freshspecbluegt]

An excellent day, thanks to Mark for taking us on a great trip through an area I didn't really know anything about. Great group too, hope to get a chance to take another run with everybody sometime soon. I'll post some of my pics when I get home tonight.

Ross