Granite Mountain, Anza-Borrego: 02.18.12

Our second (see http://tinyurl.com/7nkmd9u) hike to Granite Mountain (5633 ft, 1717 m) located in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. This time we've started from a trailhead located in the Rodriquez Canyon requiring 2 mi driving on a high-clearance vehicle road. It was a 8.7 mi, 3200 ft elevation gain hike during sunny and increasingly breeze day with the temperatures in the 50s-60s F.