Starting up an eastern slope from Canebreak Road.View back.Contouring around a bump. Abundant wildflowers tinge the hillsides yellow.Approaching a 900-foot slope to gain an eastern spur of Pinyon Peak.Steep and sandy.Gaining the spur.View north toward a colorful unnamed peaklet (Peak 5796).View back toward Walker Pass (right).Passing through a pair of pinnacles.Topping out on a small prominence. Pinyon Peak is on the left.From the prominence, view back along the spur.Descending 200 feet to a northern saddle of Pinyon Peak. A lot of brush and dead fall on the remaining route.Approaching the saddle.Flat section near the summit.View back. Owens Peak is left of center.Pinyon Peak summit.View southeast toward Scodie Mountain (right).View southwest toward a plateau in the Kiavah Wildernes.
