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| Hiking | 9.84 Miles |
2,390 AEG |
| | Hiking | 9.84 Miles | 5 Hrs 35 Mns | | 2.53 mph |
| 2,390 ft AEG | 1 Hour 42 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | This hike had been on my list for a while so I decided to go for it.
It was a cold start to the hike -- the car thermometer read 30 degrees, but it warmed up quickly.
We hiked on Granite Mountain Trail #261 most of the way, then went off-trail to the Granite Mountain 7626 summit.
On the off-trail portion, I mostly used GPS tracks from @chumley and @john9l. I was following some cairns on the early part of the trail, and noticed that the cairns were leading further south than I intended to be; so I had to loop back around to get closer to the GPS tracks.
There was a good bit of boulder hopping and rock scrambling on the way up, but we never encountered anything sketchy. The trek was a bit more brushy than I expected, but I have seen a whole lot worse.
We made our way to a saddle that is to the right of the summit as you are looking up, and then looped around a bit to the NE of the peak. From there, it was basically an easy walk to the summit.
We descended pretty much the same way that we came up, but my descent route was better I think.
It was a fun hike to bag this peak. I am not sure if it is best described as a rock-scrambling bushwhack, or a bushwhacking rock-scramble. There are some route finding issues to deal with, and I was glad to have a GPS track to show the general direction that we needed to go. |
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