2010-04-17: Bradshaw Trail (Gold Road to La Paz)
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:33 am
I had the pleasure of taking my son on a trip last weekend lead by "taugust". It was a Tierra Del Sol sanctioned trip down the Bradshaw trail. or the most part, this was a group of people I'd never adventured with before. It is always great to meet new people. They were very welcoming to the new comers to their group.
The Bradsahw Trail itself is primarily just a long gravel road with some neat history on the different side trails that it has to offer. My particular favorites were Red Canyon and Augustine Pass. There was a lot of color out there. Fortunately it wasn't all brown as the desert regions can turn quite quickly. The weather was perfect too.
I left from work Friday night to pick my son up and head out to camp in Truckhaven that night. There were about eight trucks with the same idea. We were to meet and the Salton City Arco at 7:00 am for the departure to the trailhead and I didn't want to wake up at 3:00 am to make the drive from my house to make the meeting time and place on time.
Here's our campsite at Truckhaven on Friday night.
We all got up early Saturday morning to drive the 3 miles to the meeting spot and top off our tanks. Here's the line up and our trail boss (taugust) giving us the safety and guidelines talk.
Here are some of the pics from along the trail... I wil
l post a link to all 340 pics tonight.
The Bradsahw Trail itself is primarily just a long gravel road with some neat history on the different side trails that it has to offer. My particular favorites were Red Canyon and Augustine Pass. There was a lot of color out there. Fortunately it wasn't all brown as the desert regions can turn quite quickly. The weather was perfect too.
I left from work Friday night to pick my son up and head out to camp in Truckhaven that night. There were about eight trucks with the same idea. We were to meet and the Salton City Arco at 7:00 am for the departure to the trailhead and I didn't want to wake up at 3:00 am to make the drive from my house to make the meeting time and place on time.
Here's our campsite at Truckhaven on Friday night.
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l post a link to all 340 pics tonight.
- These are a set of abandoned railroad tracks that run through the area that supplied the old mines out there.
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- THis is a colorful and tight box canyon that spurs off the Bradshaw trail.
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- Bruce posing on a slab while waiting for the rest of the group to come out of Red Canyon.
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- This little campsite can be found at the end of a little box canyon. I thought it was pretty neat.
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- This is one of the TDS board member's TJ. He hasd it painted with surplus military paint and decaled it to look like an old Willy's.
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- Part of the Bradsahw Trail is located next to a bombing range. These are some old abandon bombs setting along side the road. Hey are cement files, not live.
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- An example of the color we were exposed to.
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- Augustine Pass entrance.
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