As they continued to descend, the temperature rose, and when they reached the Borrego Badlands, some three hours from the top, the temperature had risen to 106 degrees. “We were amazed at the mountain we came down.”
July 23, 1981
At the bottom of the Santa Rosas they now had less than two quarts of water between them.
Posted July 23, 1981
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