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| Hiking | 4.90 Miles |
2,608 AEG |
| | Hiking | 4.90 Miles | 6 Hrs 17 Mns | | 1.11 mph |
| 2,608 ft AEG | 1 Hour 53 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | Since we were at BeanFest and I could only handle one day of climbing, I posted an Alt hike and got a few takers.
We started from the West side of the Dragoons unlike what is described in the description. We had done Whale Dome in the spring so I knew we could get at least half way up the drainage to a ridge that would go to the top. I checked out Google maps and it seemed doable.
The guys met me at the Beanfest camp and I jumped in with them. They had read the HAZ description of how horrible the brush. I assured them that we were going a different route and things were likely to be way worse, which reassured them greatly! 
The drainage was a great way to go up. We rock hopped and followed some big bear poop piles! We also ran into a small tiger rattler. When we got closer to the ridge we cut over to the peak. We had to fight some brush but it really wasn't that bad. We also found a second rattler!
The views from the top were incredible!
On the way down we took a different route down a close ridge. We hoped that we wouldn't cliff out and we really lucked out finding a great route down to the drainage on some limestone slab. When we got in the drainage we encounter a third rattler! That might be pushing my summer average to almost 1 per week!
We all enjoyed this hike! We agreed that it was nothing compared to Wrong Mountain! It's all based on ones perspective! |
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