I didn't take a picture of the peak itself, as the trailhead is to the northeast of the peak, and as I approached the peak, I was headed straight into the sun. All of the photos up through the one numbered 874 are taken when I turn my back to the sun and face back the way I came in. Here's a link to someone else's photo of it. The climb is about 800 vertical feet. The hike is probably four miles overall.
The area around Teutonia Peak contains the densest concentration of Joshua trees anywhere. The place was thick with them. Many more than I saw in Joshua Tree National Park.
Teutonia Peak is a ridge running SW to NE. Google Maps gives you a good view of it and the surrounding area. The little loop on Cima Road to the NE of the mark is the parking area. The concentric rings to the SSW of the peak is Cima Dome, which will be mentioned later. The part of the peak in photo 870 is the part of the top of the peak a little to the NW of the mark on the map.
As we get close to the base of the peak, the dominant vegetation changes from Joshua trees to junipers as the elevation starts to increase. If you look close in photos 871, 875, and 880 among others you can see where the treeline changes.
At this point I'm in the saddle at the top of the Teutonia ridge looking pretty much straight west to an attractive jagged rock formation.
This is looking NW to the secondary peak on top of the ridge from the saddle point. That's my next destination.
Pictures 879 and 880 are looking NW back toward the parking area from the secondary peak shown in 877. You can easily see the 4WD dirt roads shown in the Google map. If you look carefully in about the upper middle of the photo you can see the parking area. It's very difficult to make out Cima Road from here.
This is another photo west from the secondary peak to the same rock outcrop in 876. Photos 882 and 883 show roughly the same formation from slightly different views.
This photo is also of the same formation, but here you can also make out how this formation is set against the near horizon rise of Cima Dome.
This is a photo of my ultimate destination, the top of Teutonia Peak. I'm looking SW and the sun is up and to the right of the photo.
This is part of the way from the saddle point to the top of Teutonia Peak looking east or maybe east northeast. I believe that's Kessler Peak in the background.
Here I'm looking east, or perhaps a little south of east.
Still working my way up, this is a view of the peak of Cima Dome. Cima Dome was caused by a magma upwelling that never turned into an actual volcano. There are many volcanic calderae in the area, the most famous of which are Ubehebe Crater about 200 miles to the northeast in Death Valley, and Amboy Crater, about 70 miles to the south.
This is a view back NE of the same rocky outcropping seen in previous photos.
This photo faces northeast again, and although I don't expect you can see it, the parking area is in the photo. Somewhere. This is from the top of Teutonia Peak.
This is taken on the return trip as I return to the habitat of the Joshua trees.