Red Cyn. trail / Salt Creek / Bradshaw trail

[Ken&Jill]

Jill, Virginia and myself spent two nights out in the Red Canyon / Salt Creek area and had a blast hiking and some easy off roading up some side washes. We took our stock Dodge Dakota and FJ40 since we did not want to go out there with one vehicle.
We started on the Red Canyon Trail from interstate 10 at Chiricao Summit and right away the scenery was colorful.

Riding the spine of the Red Canyon Trail was fun and one could see if you took your eyes off the trail, you would be in serous trouble. At one spot there was no more than a few of feet on both sides of our truck. Our stock truck had no issues all weekend out there.
The trail system that we saw went from stock to as wild as you wanted to get. At one point we had a hard time walking up a jeep trail.

In one of the washes we came across the Suburban that is buried half way up to its axles.

Even though it was probably a lot easier when the Suburban made its journey, that driver still did an unbelievable job to get that thing that far up the wash. I think it would have to be cut up to remove it now.

The couple of side canyons we hiked were awesome and driving in such a narrow slot was fun. The weather could not have been better with no wind and mild temps. We spotted quite a bit of sheep droppings but never spotted any animals to speak of.

Sunday we packed up and drove out the Bradshaw Trail to the canal and out to Hwy.111
Someone put up a couple of huge burms on the canal road so a long wheel base would have high center issues.

Ken

[BorregoWrangler]

Great pictures and thanks for the report. I would love to get out and explore that area sometime.

Looks like someone had a bad day with that suburban!

[BlueFJ]

Looks like someone had a bad day with that suburban!

That's why it's called a "Suburban" and not a "Desert"!