Distance: 3.5 miles round trip on dirt road and cross country
Summit Elevation: 3772'
Elevation Gain: 1555'
Elevation Gain (in Empire State Buildings): 1.2
Round trip time: 2 hours
Recommended water: 32 oz.
Parking/Fees: Free on Chuckwalla Peak Road
Difficulty: Easy
After Palo Verde, Ben and I met up again for Micro Benchmark. This was another desert peak south of I-10 in the Chuckwalla Wilderness. Ben drove in on a bumpy, but decent dirt road and parked below the gate. We saw a couple of service trucks on the road. The road was pretty steep from the gate to the towers. We wandered around the tower area a little, then set off the very slightly higher peak about a quarter mile away. This was open desert and easy to navigate. We had nice views of the local mountains and long, straight stripe of I-10 stretching to the horizon in both directions. Ben spotted a register in the summit rocks. When we started down, it had warmed up quite a bit. We were in the waning weeks of desert season.
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