On our way to the Barker Dam/Wall Street area. These would be little inselbergs.

https://www.desertusa.com/desert-califo ... kpile.html An inselberg is a residual relief feature--an isolated hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly, like an island, from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain (inselberg is a German word meaning "island mountain").