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Looking down from the Kelso Peak ridge line past a few joshua trees and indigo bushes, I wonder how I made it up here!

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3637-kelso-peak.jpg I climb up to the Kelso Peak ridge line, using my hands at times, and realize that vertigo is setting in; a good place to restThumbnailsVertigo man is fixated on how steep this is; I feel like a cat on a roof, not sure how to get back downI climb up to the Kelso Peak ridge line, using my hands at times, and realize that vertigo is setting in; a good place to restThumbnailsVertigo man is fixated on how steep this is; I feel like a cat on a roof, not sure how to get back downI climb up to the Kelso Peak ridge line, using my hands at times, and realize that vertigo is setting in; a good place to restThumbnailsVertigo man is fixated on how steep this is; I feel like a cat on a roof, not sure how to get back downI climb up to the Kelso Peak ridge line, using my hands at times, and realize that vertigo is setting in; a good place to restThumbnailsVertigo man is fixated on how steep this is; I feel like a cat on a roof, not sure how to get back downI climb up to the Kelso Peak ridge line, using my hands at times, and realize that vertigo is setting in; a good place to restThumbnailsVertigo man is fixated on how steep this is; I feel like a cat on a roof, not sure how to get back down

Steep hikes and bike rides don't bother me, but it's very different when loose rock, instead of a trail, is the climbing surface. I guess I'm still a hiker, and not a mountain climber.