We parked in about the same spot - a good long way from the base of the northern face of the mountain. You can get an idea of the distance from the picture above. There are no trails - we just pick a direction that looks good. The route we took went past some cool rock formations - still far from the base of the mountain.
From there the route ran around clumps of junipers until the ground started to slope up. We walked up the slope to the pine tree in the upper right of the photo, then to the right of the tree.
After that, things became much more difficult. The scrub forced us to either walk straight up the mountain or left and down. Left was good - down not so much. We zigzagged up and over along the base of the cliffs on the right-hand peak until we actually met the cliffs. The going was very steep.
The cliffs were manageable on the edges, so I went that way. Tracy bushwhacked to the left of the cliffs, not wanting to climb them.
But we made it to the top. The views were spectacular - but with all the rain, it was actually a little hazy. Fairly rare for high desert!
More later. These are original iPhone 4 pictures. No retouching.
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