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| Hiking | 8.03 Miles |
2,203 AEG |
| | Hiking | 8.03 Miles | 5 Hrs 10 Mns | | 1.86 mph |
| 2,203 ft AEG | 51 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | McCullough Mountain (elevation of 7,026 feet and prominence of 2,170 feet) has been on my radar screen so I decided to go hike it today. In addition to being a P2K peak, it is the highpoint of the McCullough Range, and is also on the Sierra Club Desert Peaks Section(DPS) peak list.
I drove in on Wee Thump Road for several miles through a Joshua Tree forest. I enjoyed driving through the Joshua trees, and the road was not too bad, although at a minimum you'd need a HCV. I was happy to have 4WD for the drive.
This a typical DPS hike: off the grid and no trail. Route finding on this hike was not too bad though: I went through a wash for a couple of miles, traversed around a ridgeline to get to another wash, went through the second wash to within around 300 vertical feet of the summit, and then busted up some slopes to the summit. Most of the hike was class 1, with a bit of rock scrambling in a short portion of the second wash.
I enjoyed the hike although it won't make my favorite hike list. Route finding was much easier than many off-trail hikes that I have done, since there is really only one way to go in a narrow wash, and most of the hike was in a couple of narrow washes. The downside is that there wasn't much in the way of views when hiking in the washes, although I really enjoyed the views at the summit. |
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