Where:  Mojave National Preserve, CA

Who:  Matthew Hengst, Anne Kircher, Jeff Atijera

Pictures:  Matt's Flickr

GPS Track:  Matt's Track

Though the Sierra is still largely accessible I've been itching to get out to the desert for a while now and have been working on a number off list trip ideas.  

Castle Peaks is an interesting set of bumps out in eastern Mojave that anyone climbing in the area has probably noticed from a distance more than once.  While looking for interesting non DPS-list peaks to do I came across an extremely extensive writeup done by cp0915 over on SummitPost http://www.summitpost.org/castle-peaks-mojave/487688

3rd, 4th and 5th class bumps in the middle of nowhere best described as “impressive crud heap”?  Sold!