Wildcat Traverse

We were all a little beat. The ridge was a lot rougher than we anticipated, and we spent a lot of time climbing over crumbing spires and down unexpected cliffs. We dicided to forgo the last peak, because we might then get down in the dark, and I can't balance well in the dark. I am strong, but know my limits.

Harlan W S & Anji C
Saturday, February 16, 2019

We went clockwise. Roads that appear on google earth seem to have washed out, so the trek back across the "flats" was not that easy.	Starting on the east route to Wildcat, view over sand dunes and Bat Mt and friends.	Anji with her big, whiplash-free pack.
Anji photo of us negotiating the quartzite ridge. Not visible are the cliffs that followed each upclimb.	More of the ridge with hidden cliffs. Eventually we dropped in the wash to south.	On Wildcat
View S from Wildcat	View from my pitstop	Wildrose Peak
California Sierra	View N from Wildcat. Colorful terrain.	MacLeod-Lilley register on Wildcat.

The rough descent N of Wildcat		Anji pic of me heading to anonymous lump.
Wildcat in back	Anji pick of rough terrain to anonymous lump	Anji pic
Anji pic	Anji and Bart on the lump	Anji and Bart over the lump
	Next rough ridge	cinder cone and basalt flow to E
Part of the ridge we crossed	More of ridge we traversed	Bart on creepy downclimb
	Peak 5162, our route for next part	The annoying quartzite ridge we ascended


Anji and Bart downclimb	where we were
Where we are going. Route on brown was milder	Where we came from
descent	View up at a peak we crossed	The way back was over Flintstone baseballs.
The sharp right drop was where Anji predicted I would hit cliffs. She was correct, but I found a way down.