California - Borrego Springs - Smuggler Caynon - Bisnaga Alta Wash
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 6.66 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,125 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,125 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,514 ft
- TrailRank
- 32
- Min elevation
- 2,514 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 3 hours one minute
- Coordinates
- 1229
- Uploaded
- January 27, 2014
- Recorded
- January 2014
near Mesquite Oasis, California (United States)
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Itinerary description
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The Smuggler Canyon wash is wide and not obvious. A lot of small streams coming from the general direction.
Start hiking North towards a faint saddle far away.
Gradually the canyon walls appear and the wash is more clear to follow.
The first half of the hike is easy in a mostly sandy wash.
As the sandy wash more or less ends in a wide boulder rich area, actually more like a fork,
start hiking East and later North East, staying in the boulder rich wash that ends up in the Bisnaga Alta Wash.
There is enough sand to make this an almost easy hike.
You can see the sandy North Wall of the Bisnaga Alta Wash, head that way.
The shortest route is a short boulder hop away.
Once in the Bisnaga Alta Wash hike downhill (South).
This wash is very different from the Smuggler, sand with some small rocks and boulders.
Follow the wash all the way down.
At the highway, cross it and hike west, until you reach the car.
We found most of the flowers in the easy Smuggler Canyon Wash.
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How to get here:
Close to mile 36, at the blue litter removal 2 mile sign, park roadside.
Waypoints
Car park
Waypoint
2,504 ft
Bisnaga A
Bisnaga Alta Wash
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