{"id":2162,"date":"2026-01-01T07:45:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:46:10","slug":"w6-sd-082-pinyon-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2026\/01\/01\/w6-sd-082-pinyon-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"W6-SD-082 Pinyon Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">This is probably one of the best hikes to take in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, and the trail takes you right by a SOTA summit.&nbsp; The trail is not the usual SoCal PCT hard pan, but a soft enjoyable semi-sand trail.&nbsp; You never really get into anything very steep so it makes it that much more enjoyable.&nbsp; The trail is well worn and easy to follow.&nbsp; We took basically the route charted in download below and the distance and elevation gain comes from my Apple Watch (which matched Ted\u2019s exactly).&nbsp; There\u2019s a bit of elevation gain on the way back but it\u2019s enjoyable.<\/span><\/p><p><b style=\"font-weight:normal;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-7834e1e6-7fff-d536-2601-69e58e3a1575\"><br><\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">The views are awesome and as a bonus, you get a POTA activation out of it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><b style=\"font-weight:normal;\"><br><\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">The activation zone is pretty big.&nbsp; I setup on the summit, but there was plenty of room in the AZ, where Ted enjoyed some epic views as well.<\/span><\/p><p><br><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">I did this summit with Ted, W6TED at the end of December.&nbsp; The weather was overcast and about 53 deg f, absolutely perfect for a hike out in the desert.&nbsp; If I had to choose my favorate hike in this area, this is it.&nbsp; Bill, N6MTB, who did this two days before us, agrees.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tripreports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}