"Parked at the south-end of the state-trust land area, in the neighborhood, and hiked north along a dirt road towards the hill. Since this is State Trust Land, you need a permit to hike here. The permit process is pretty simple, you can do it on-line and the permit lasts for a year. Anyway....There are a lot of tracks and small use trails zig-zagging all over the place. So I ended up veering off the road to the east a bit on a direct line to the hill, which involved a lot of bush-wacking through the cactus and brush. I reached the southern slope of the hill and started up. Most of this hill is covered with small, dark colored boulders that looked like a twisted ankle waiting to happen, but the boulders were pretty stable and didn't move when stepping on them, and once I got comfortable with that it was just a matter of picking the best way up. Ochoa is a two-prominence hill with a saddle between them. When I reached the top of the southern-most prominence, I couldn't tell which was higher, so I hiked down to the saddle and then up to the top of the northern one - just to be sure. Because I'm like that. From the top, I had a good view of the area and the interconnecting dir..." — lawrencebaker • Apr 19, 2017