Saturday, February 17th, 2007...9:42 pm
Border Hike Strike 2 and 3
After regrouping from this mornings failed hike, I headed much further east for a different hike along the Mexican border. Afoot & Afield in San Diego lists 3 hikes in the Jacumba Mountains which is where San Diego County meets Imperial County along the Mexican border.
Trip 1 and 2 both have the same starting point. As good as Afoot and Afield is for hiking ideas, it can sometimes have poorly written or confusing directions to the trail head. It took over an hour of hiking and scaling up a mountain before I realized I was in the wrong spot. Once I was high enough I found the path to the trail head. Only to discover the trail head parking is now blocked off completely with lots of signs saying private property. So the big parking turnout mention in the book is no more. I was driving a diesel hatchback, so I couldn’t 4 wheel drive past this point. No hike for me here.
A few miles up the road was Trip 3. Not mentioned in the book is you also need an off-road vehicle to get to this trail head as well. I think I’m done with border hikes.
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