DIFFICULTY: MODERATE to HARD 3 miles
PLANT KNOWLEDGE: Novice +, Professionals always welcome!
ACCESS: Open to all, no charge
[SEVERE WEATHER CANCELS EVENT - Temps over 90F (32C) or Storm Warnings]
This will be one of our deep desert series trips, starting out from a relatively obscure corner of San Diego County and heading into a location once littered with broken Jeeps and desert camping circles. Truckhaven Rocks is an odd mixed riser of sandstone boulders, cut with eroded caves and Chuckawalla nooks.
It should be just the start to an amazing 'Superbloom' in and around the Borrego Valley, with this low elevation location sporting some rare species like the Orcutt's woody aster (Xylorhiza orcutti). This spit of the SE desert portion of the Santa Rosa Mtns is often overlooked by all but the most resilient and tenacious of botanists. We hope to add to a botanical inventory compiled by Tom Chester, whom has botanized the area very well over the past year.
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