DESTINATION Peak 4110 - Mineral Mountain Quad 1 Photoset
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| Hiking | 4.10 Miles |
1,372 AEG |
| | Hiking | 4.10 Miles | 3 Hrs 31 Mns | | 1.26 mph |
| 1,372 ft AEG | 16 Mns Break | 20 LBS Pack | | |
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| no partners | | As short as my first climb was today it was demanding enough to take a break before heading off on this one. Good thing, as this climb was easily three times the effort of the first.
I followed the first 100 yards of the route on my first hike before starting the climb along the southern slope. Although I had a pretty solid route planned it appeared I'd have to traverse a very steep loose terrain section so I turned up toward the ridge sooner than planned. As I would find out, I should have stuck with the plan, but no matter, I had to climb up sooner or later anyway.
Once on the ridge it was flat, but still very rocky and with plenty of thorny brush, yet just open enough I could avoid most of it albeit following a very meandering route. Closer to the summit the thorny brush gave way to grass and finally all rocks.
I took the usual summit pan video and photos before heading back. About halfway back I stopped for my second 'lunch' of the day, enjoying an awesome view at the same time.
For the return trip I followed my original route plan pretty close along the slope, only to make one slight miscalculation in which I slid into a small bowl with only two choices to climb out, through very heavy cats-claw or the option I chose, climb a tree far enough to hop over onto a ledge, following it until I could climb out. Once that fiasco was over with I reconnected with my track outbound track so as not to fall into any other traps.
Back at the car I simply didn't have the energy to take on the third peak I had a planned route for. Next time.
As usual, I'm posting a batch of photos on HAZ with the full set on my website.
A 75-second 360-dgree summit pan video is here:
http://changephoenix.com/jpserver/web/public/album.php?id=296 |
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