Wilson and Pinyon Ridge (P4614)

Mark and I scratched two more off the "San Diego 100" list today!
Sierra Club San Diego 100

Wilson and Pinyon Ridge are two peaks near our old stomping grounds at Culp Valley.  The trailhead is off a rugged, and I mean RUGGED, old dirt road.  Glad we had the truck!  After a late start, and 4 brisk hours of hiking in the cool desert wind, we had bagged our peaks!

Wilson Peak

Pinyon Ridge Peak

It looked to us (and the summit register confirmed) that including ourselves, only three people had used the trail in the last two weeks.  Some handy trail markers showed the way to Wilson Peak, while we had to do a little more bushwhakcing to get to Pinyon Ridge.  (Neither peak is actually on the trail.) We saw deer, coyote tracks, and far more birds than either of us expected.  We could see just about every inch of the Salton Sea from Wilson Peak.

Signing the Wilson Peak summit register.

Standing on Pinyon Ridge Peak

Mark's off-road face

Mark's truck on the "road"

And here are the details, for those of you willing to try it.  (Click on the images below for larger versions.)

More meandering than actual climbing

We parked at a signed pullout on Old Culp Valley Road

The hike turned out a little longer than we both expected