
After walking along the road from the Pine Creek Trailhead, I located the start of the Guatay Mountain Trail, seen right. Guatay Mountain is up on the left.

Along the Guatay Mountain Trail.

View back, you can see the road just over on the left, paralleling the trail for a bit.

The trailthen bends south and heads up toward Guatay Mountain's east ridge.

Very eroded up this portion of the trail.

View back as I near the east ridge, Cuyamaca Peak seen in the distance.

Along the east ridge, Guatay Mountain seen ahead.

One of the couple of undulations along the ridge crest.

View back as I progress up Guatay Mountain.

A cool view of the bright on Interstate 8 over Pine Creek. Long Valley Peak seen top left.

A large hump along the ridgeline, adding more vertical. Guatay Mountain seen ahead.

View back at the ridge undulations.

At the base of the steeper portion of trail leading to the summit.

Another shot back along the ridgeline as I head up toward the summit.

False summit seen ahead, true summit just behind it.

Nearing the top, some light rockiness along the trail.

Cuyamaca Peak hidden by clouds. The trail is easy to follow generally, but does get a bit obscured by brush at one point before reaching the high point.

Guatay Mountain summit, view west.

Guatay Mountain summit, view southeast.

Close-up south.
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