After hiking through the trails, we struck off on a desert road towards Red Mountain. We saw several birds, including Canyon Wren, Black-throated Sparrow, and Loggerhead Shrike. We were able to listen to their songs, and compare them to the sounds I now have in a birding application in my new iPod. It turned out to be very convenient to have the equivalent to a large birding book in such a small pocket device, plus the audio!

We took a left fork off the main road and took it until it deadended at a rock cairn, which in looking at a map later I believe to be at the foot of Gier's Mountain and the boundary of the Gibraltar Mountain Wilderness.

The variety in the rock formations in this area is fascinating. I only wish I knew something of geology to be able to have some understanding of what is here.