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| Hiking | 8.80 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 8.80 Miles | 4 Hrs 42 Mns | | 1.87 mph |
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| partners | | After an entertaining night of camping  , we headed over to Hualapai Mountain Park with the intention of getting to the Mohave County high point.
It's early season and there was only one car in the parking lot when we arrived. The trails here are very well marked, and in great shape. We did a counter-clockwise loop around Aspen Peak on the Potato Patch Loop.
After wandering through Camp Levi Levi, we followed the road toward Hualapai. Only later did I realize that Hualapai Peak is not inside the county park, and therefore explains why this aggressively-signed trail system has no mention of Hualapai Peak on it. After some confusion, we figured it out, and headed southeast along the old road, first descending and then climbing to a saddle, before the old road turns to the southwest and ascends steeply directly toward the peak.
This would have been a very rough road for a vehicle back in the day! A very impressive grade!
The trail levels out for a short stretch before making the final push to the peak, where it ends on the south side below the rocky summit. We chose our ascent route from the east, one switchback below the end of the road, where a vegetation-filled chute showed signs of previous travel. There is some easy class-3 scrambling to the peak, the only real hazard was not slipping on the patches of snow that remained from a small storm earlier in the week.
The top is small and it was windy. There are two reference marks pointing to the benchmark. Strangely the one reference mark was blatantly higher (by at least 2-3 feet) than the benchmark. 
Also, Lee and John indicated that the Garmin basemaps have this peak marked with an incorrect elevation over 1000 feet lower than it actually is. Strange.
I spent 5-10 minutes climbing up, down, and around the boulders up top looking for any sign of a register. To my surprise, there wasn't one. On a county highpoint!!? Despite it's relative ease to get to, the peak itself is a bit of a challenge, as noted by previous HAZ triplogs (Joe, seriously!?  ) so it wouldn't surprise me if a register up there didn't get more than 20-30 visits annually.
The trip down was quick and easy, this time taking the south and east route around Aspen Peak.
I like this park a lot. I'll be back to hit up Aspen, Hayden, and the other developed trail out to Potato Patch and Dinosaur Rock. Maybe Dean Peak across the way too. Or even hit Hualapai from the Wild Cow Springs drainage off-trail. Lots to do here  |
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Pine Lake |
76-100% full |
76-100% full |
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| I'm not sure what my spirit animal is, but I'm confident it has rabies. |
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