Scrambling up a ridge from Hellhole Canyon 12/24/11

Eric Su · Post by **Eric Su** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:11 am

a fun dayhike, scrambling up a ridge in the Anza borrego desert. We reached 2 benchmarks and climbed up Peak 5386 (aka. San Ysidro East Peak or Doghead Peak).

At the start of the hike. The lower hill near the left side of the pic known as "Ode BM" was our first destination.

Indianhead Peak in the distance

view from the summit of Ode BM

continuing along the ridge

bighorn sheep

Ode BM behind us

view from the top of Kay BM (3589 ft)

continuing up towards Peak 5386

we found several huge bones strewn across a flat area about half a mile northwest of Kay BM

at the summit of Peak 5386

descending

lilbitmo · Post by **lilbitmo** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:32 am

Eric - that's a great "Pictoral Trip Report"

Looks like a fun day

Post by **Taco** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 2:15 pm

Cool pics dude.

Is that Kirk?!

hvydrt · Post by **hvydrt** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 5:34 pm

Nice pics. I was in that area a few months ago and saw those bones. They seemed too large to be a sheep. Not sure what they were from.

cougarmagic · Post by **cougarmagic** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:50 pm

Taco wrote: ↑Is that Kirk?!

Indeed. I sent him the link to this when I saw it, and he called me a stalker.

Great photos! AMAZING sheep!!

I have to assume the bones are from cattle.