Our traditional stop at the Subway in Jacumba
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The drive into Indian Valley.
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Small cave in Indian Valley
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Coyote view of the trucks
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Sombrero Peak is the highest mountain in the Southern Anza Borrego Desert
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Waning Moon over Indian Valley
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Testing out the new ARB Awning. This accessory was made for the desert :-)
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Bob checking out a smaller cave near the trailhead
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Indian Valley in Anza Borrego has many signs of Native American habitation. Morteros can be found on many of the flatter boulders in the valley.
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Palm grove at the trail head
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The search for the mysterious Indian Valley Solstice Cave was going to be harder than we thought.
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Looking back down into the South Fork of Indian Valley.
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Line of healthy Ocotillo high up on the ridge.
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Large Yoni (?) high up on the ridge near the Solstice Cave
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We found many interesting rock formations as we hunted for the Solstice Cave in Indian Valley.
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View of the Salton Sea from high up on the ridge above Indian Valley
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While this was not the Solstice Cave, the incoming sunlight did make a pretty cool triangle pattern on the cave wall.
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vertical boulder
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After hours of searching and enduring many cholla and catclaw scrapes we stumbled upon the Solstice Cave
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The Solstice Cave was surprisingly large considering how hard it was to find
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Bob taking a rest in the Solstice Cave
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Sun Pictograph
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We counted a half dozen sun pictographs on the ceiling of the cave
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The sun pictographs varied in color from red to a faded orange
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Orange sun pictograph
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We were excited to find an antromorph pictograph near the rear of the cave,
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Sun Pictograph in the Indian Valley Solstice Cave
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Antromorph Pictograph in the Indian Valley Solstice Cave
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Antromorph figure near back of cave
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Orange sun in theSolstice Cave
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Smaller pictograph that we couldn't quite make out.
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This was my favorite sun pictograph
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Multiple sun pictographs covered the ceiling of the Solstice Cave
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This sun pictograph seemed to have a line drawn out of it.
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Cool shot of a jet trail intersecting the brilliant desert sun
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Hiking back from the Solstice Cave
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ARB awning will be a great addition to many of our Anza Borrego adventures.
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Bob and Daren take a well deserved "Bohemia" break after the hike.
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Anza Borrego's S2 highway was deserted on this Thursday afternoon
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Leaving Indian Gorge in the "BioCruiser".
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Stopped to check out the Sunrise Powerlink staging area in Alpine on the way home.
Apparently they are a bit worried about security.
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