California - Borrego Springs - Domelands Andrade Canyon Narrows and slots
Trail photos
Author
Trail stats
- Distance
- 8.79 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,519 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,519 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,431 ft
- TrailRank
- 35
- Min elevation
- 1,431 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 4 hours 19 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1579
- Uploaded
- January 29, 2014
- Recorded
- January 2014
near Dos Cabezas, California (United States)
Viewed 476 times, downloaded 5 times
Trail photos
Itinerary description
More Anza Borrego Hiking
Visit the Domelands narrows and slots.
Start hiking up the old dirt road, a bit of a climb.
You should more or less end up in the main wash of the Andrade Canyon, if you keep on going.
This fork is narrow and rocky, so that doesn't look good.
Indeed a really steep fall blocks our way.
Go back and take the first sandy wash on the left going east (Fork 1).
Follow it all the way up until you meet the Andrade Canyon East fork.
This is a sandy wash filled with some rocks, not as narrow as the main wash.
The canyon turns into a mud canyon wash.
After a while the canyon hits a sandstone barrier and the canyon cuts right through it.
The walls are really amazingly high and not too stable, as there are many huge boulders in the canyon.
The boulders make it hard to proceed all the way up to the end.
Go back and cross over the mud hills, west.
You should end up in a narrow canyon at point Wash 2.
After a while you end up in the main Andrade Canyon wash.
The canyon goes through the sandstone barrier, but here the going is a lot easier.
Turn right into the canyon that was blocked with huge boulders.
The steep canyons are a bit scary, really steep and unstable, but pretty.
Go back the way you came.
More Pictures
How to get here:
Take the road marked 093.
Close mile: 57.2
The dirt road is good, you need a bit of ground clearance.
Drive for about 2 miles.
Waypoints
Car park
Waypoint
1,005 ft
Fall 1
Fall 1
Waypoint
1,157 ft
Fork 1
Fork 1
Waypoint
1,235 ft
Wash
Wash
Waypoint
827 ft
Wash 2
Wash 2
Waypoint
811 ft
Fork 2
Waypoint
925 ft
Highway
Highway
You can add a comment or review this trail
Comments