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Anza-Borrego Central: Blair Valley
Blair Valley Pictograph: Image of the Sun
Blair Valley attracted the Indians of old and it attracts hikers and campers
today, with good reason.
Indian morteros and pictographs can be visited, and so can remnants of more
recent history such as Foot and Walker Pass, where stage coach passengers
had to get out and walk over the rocks, and the ruins of the former home of
the poet Marshall South and his family on Ghost Mountain.
Blair Valley's altitude contributes to its attractiveness. You are at about
2,400 feet when you turn off of County Road S-2. Five miles to the southeast,
at the trailhead for the one-mile walk to the pictographs, the elevation
is a mere 3,200 feet.
The California
Juniper thrives in this area, as do the Desert
Agave and the Mohave
Yucca. Up above, in the Vallecito Mountains, the plant community changes
from desert to Pinyon-Juniper
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