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I drove the trails of California s largest and most mysterious state park - and it was mind-blowing
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“Are you really going to do this?” my partner Steve says.
We’re sitting in a Jeep on top of a mesa in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park down near California’s border with Mexico, due west of the Salton Sea. The stark beauty of the cactus-speckled Colorado Desert and its badlands, dry lake beds and erosion-carved peaks spills out for miles in every direction.
Right in front of us is the Diablo Drop-off, a famously steep and uneven precipice that should only be attempted in favorable conditions with a high-clearance vehicle. Soft sands and occasional flash floods mean the drop can vary from mildly amusing to downright treacherous, but luckily for us, today it seems doable.