notes on West Butte Borrego Mountain January 6, 2011 N 33 9.541 W 116 13.125 westernmost junction of Buttes Pass Rd and C-78 [9-541-13-125] we drive to the parking area along Schad's route [taking lat/long as waypoints in the GPS] waypoint 2 the other entrance to this road joins from the R waypoint 10 fork in the road, we take the L fork waypoint 18 is small parking area before small rough spot 10--755--12--880 waypoint 23 is center of a much larger parking area with two roads leading off it 1 591-113 2 645-61 3 688-67 4 741-30 5 928-852 6 979-789 7 28-773 8 79-758 9 229-787 10 10-274-12-795-fork 11 334-807 12 369-852 13 431-882 14 480-911 15 595-955 16 642-954 17 688-934 18 762-881 19 795-885 20 834-872 21 862-865 22 900-844 23 10-928-12-842-parking heading out onto the remains of the road in Schad's description 923-783 931-770 944-762 955-732 944-702 964-676 993-685 28-701 51-711 67-705 70-697 11--684 [?] 129-674 150-656 163-630 184-603 225-568 224-562 258-513 279-484 299-420 301-422 304-400 301-375 306-363 312-365 330-366 11-347-12-379! SA is barred by a few rocks placed across the trail; it may be Schad's return route, R appears to be the trail to the summit end of this part, I go back 306-353 we turn L into a side trail 307-335! we stop and eat lunch back at the junction [11-347-12-379], we turn R to go to the summit 358-375 378-382 392-377 385-350 383-322 389-303 391-300 394-296 388-261 11-401-12-262-summit1 what appears to be the summit, or one of several summits 472-264! one of the other summits [I and two others return by the same route; Tom et al use Schad's alternate return]