Distance: 3.6 miles round trip cross country
Summit Elevation: 2937' (Plum)
Elevation Gain: 1084'
Elevation Gain (in Empire State Buildings): 0.8
Round trip time: 2 hours 30 minutes
Recommended water: 32 oz.
Parking/Fees: Free on Plum Canyon Road
Difficulty: Easy
After a couple of days of rain, I headed to Anza-Borrego for a few unclimbed peaks near Highway 78. I drove a short distance east of scissors crossing, then turned north on Plum Canyon Road, an easy dirt road with no serious obstacles. The road forks at the midpoint and I followed the left fork, though either would work. I parked at the end and start hiking up a gully on the right. There was some vegetation to get around, but nothing sharp got me. From the top of the gully, I gained the ridge and followed it to Plum Peak. A register was there in a glass jar going back to 2017 with only a few signatures. There was no benchmark, but someone left antlers from a deer shed next to it. Plum had nice views of Sentenac, Grapevine, and Granite Mountain. After signing, I continued down the other ridge toward Peak 2755, a low prominence peak between Plum and Sentenac. 2755 had a small cairn, but no register. On the way back, I took a short cut back to my approach ridge and returned to the truck. A fine warm up for the next couple of peaks.
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