This hike was one of the most eventful hikes that I have ever done. I don’t mean that in the normal, there were really cool rocks (even though there were), I mean it in the sense that we got into some dangerous situations that we were not prepared for. Just like with Joshua Tree, I wanted to hike within an ecosystem that I was not used to. So my friend and I made the hour drive North East from LA to Agua Dulce on a rainy Sunday afternoon. We passed giant fields of oil drills as we weaved in and out of the canyons. Since the rain was just a sprinkle, we didn’t worry too much about rock slides or anything of the like as we drove to our destination. Continue reading “How to Survive Getting Lost in the Desert: Vasquez Rocks Hike”