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| Hiking | 8.10 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 8.10 Miles | 7 Hrs 50 Mns | | 1.28 mph |
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| no partners | | Skipped Bonanza Peak near Las Vegas and headed straight to Boundary Peak. I wanted to do something big. This is a great peak, and conditions couldn’t have been better for it today. I started from the Trail Canyon Trailhead, and went up and down the descent route. This is pretty hard to go up, since it is a rough scree slope, but altitude makes it harder, too. Everything here has a Sierra feel, but the white rock is Quartz Monzonite, not granite.
While on top, I kept looking at White Mountain Peak, and thought I would head over there to hike that, but that ended up not working out. The summit views of the Sierra Nevada and Mono Lake were enjoyable, as was 2 nights of camping near the base. Boundary has ended up being my highest summit since San Luis Peak in Colorado in September of 2013. Since then, I’ve managed lots of Humphrey Summits but nothing greater. I felt it, too, as 13,140' is now 12,000’ higher than my living altitude. When I lived in Flagstaff I wouldn't have even thought of it.
Boundary Peak is located in the Nevada outpost of the California based Inyo National Forest. Perhaps for this reason, there are no actual developed trails to the summit, and there are few signs for the roads. I followed summitpost directions and the USFS signs to Trail Canyon, but it turned out that the route descriptions was for Queen Mine, not the TH I used. 1 of the 3 other hikers I saw this day made the same mistake using SP directions. This was fine, but I didn't know the route up to the Trail Canyon Saddle was off trail, and I never got close to the wild horses, where as the other 2 hikers of the day came from the Queen Mine and did. Because I went the visible trail and found the confusing route description useless on this roue, I went up and down the descent route, which is basically a steep loose trail that is very easy to follow. In fact, the hardest part was the loose scree, but that was fine. Once on the ridge, it was very obvious and easy to follow, just hard due to altitude.
Stats are per Carl's GPS route which I played with to get my route. |
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