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| no partners | | I found a road I had never known about that made getting there MUCH easier. From the highway, take the paved road to the landfill by Mobile, AZ and head north, paralleling the dump. Just before you get to the small airstrip there, turn right. That road bends around the end of the runway and heads north. It's a reasonable high clearance road that will eventually join up with the powerline road, but isn't nearly as long as following the powerline road all the way along 7 mile mountain. After the Montezuma Peak turnoff the road gets dramatically rougher as you approach the trailhead. You definitely need 4WD for this one. Not just for the rough sections, but the approach roads cross and sometimes drive directly inside of deep sand.
The only trail is a sketchy one for a short distance to the old Spanish mine and mine shelter. Beyond that, it was a boulder and bramble scramble all the way up. You escape the catclaw and cacti by sticking to the center of the gully (it splits up high. I took the right fork that heads towards the false summit), but there you will also find polished, downward sloping slabs one after the other. Near what looks like the summit (false summit), I headed along the bottom of its cliffs and wrapped around to the left to access a small hanging basin below the real summit. From there, you head up to the ridge and skirt around the summit block until you find a weakness on the north side that allows you to scramble up to the top. This whole route was steeper and rougher than I expected, but still fun! Classic Estrella terrain. |
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