As soon as I saw that we were going to have some cooler weather, I knew where I was headed...the Sheep Range! I had big plans up there for this spring, but we all know how that went... I took a long weekend & headed up there Saturday afternoon. I had seen this peak when I climbed Sheep Peak last year & wanted to get up it ever since. I looked at maps & saw a spur road off the Pine Nut Road & hoped I'd be able to drive out pretty close to the peak, but when I got out there , I discovered that spur road had long ago been closed off. I hiked a bit out the old road Saturday afternoon just to get an idea of what it would be like, then went up to Pine Nut Camp for the night. Pine Nut is a very nice primitive camp up in the pinyons & junipers right below Sheep Peak. It was cool & delightful up there! I spent the afternoon painting. Sunday morning, I drove back to the small parking area at the start of the old road & headed out. Though the road seems to go all the way out to the peak on maps, I lost track of it, maybe half way out. It's really overgrown! It starts off in Yucca Forest with huge old Joshua Trees which offered at least some shade. Eventually, I got to an old burn area which lasted until the peak. This section was completely shade-less. The earlier warm weather had withered a lot of the spring bloom, but there were still many flowers blooming. I decided I wanted to loop over the peak & then down the shorter of the twin buttes. I went up the south ridge directly below the higher summit. From below, it looked like an easy walk up, but it turned out to have a good bit of class 2+ scrambling on solid limestone up the last 200 feet or so! I was surprised to find a Lilley/MacLeod register up there. They had climbed it in 1996. After that the next group of signatures was from a bunch of groups in 2009-2010. I suspect they closed the road shortly after that because the next 2 signatures were from 2014. Then the next was from a solo guy in 2019 & one more from earlier in 2020. I had a red-tailed hawk screeching at me the whole time I was up there. I descended to the saddle between the buttes, went up over the lower butte & then headed down an easy ramp-like ridge on the SSW side. I went up to Pine Nut again to spend another night. It was a heavenly weekend!