
Hiking up a wash into the wilderness.

It's an easy walk on packed sand.

Blooming flowers and pretty colorful walls.

Ascending through the wash for a while.

View back shortly before we left the main wash.

After leaving the main wash as we attempt a route. A near-convergence of two washes in the badlands.

Cool features we as weave around in our chosen wash.

The wash narrows.

Hairpin turn in the canyon.

We reached a dryfall (seen left) and took a gully on the right.

View back into the complex terrain.

Up a second gully, still hopefully we'd get out of the washes and onto the steep ridge.

Class 2/3.

Ascending our chosen ridge. Mecca Hill Benchmark seen ahead.

Chris on the undulating ridge. You might think you could gain the ridgeline farther ahead, but the canyons on both left and right had dryfalls preventing access to their upper reaches.

View back along our ridge.

Pretty ridgeline.

Close-up into the steep canyons.

Spray-painted rock along our ridge. I guess someone else was here first!

A wider shot into an adjacent ridge, one that looked less viable.

View back at our ridgeline, center.

Close-up at the ridgeline.

Another shot back, higher up the ridge.

Final bit to the summit.

View back along the ridge asecnt.

Chris on a narrow portion higher up.

View back just below the summit.

Approaching the summit of Mecca Hill.

Mecca Hill Benchmark summit, Salton sea on the left.

Coachella Valley and Mount San Jacinto seen from the summit.
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