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| Hiking | 12.13 Miles |
2,532 AEG |
| | Hiking | 12.13 Miles | 9 Hrs 10 Mns | | 1.60 mph |
| 2,532 ft AEG | 1 Hour 35 Mns Break | | | |
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| partners | | I have been wanting to hike to Tortilla Mountain and the stars were aligned yesterday to do so!
My stock vehicle did not have enough clearance to make it past the trailhead on FR 213, so we walked the road instead. Once to Tortilla Well, we took the Peters Trail for about 1.3 miles to Indian Spring, where we went off-trail to Tortilla Mountain.
The road walk was pretty easy, although it was a bit rocky in places. On the way out, I lost Peters Trail while going through a wash and stayed in the wash longer than I would have liked. On the way back I managed to stay on Peters Trail the whole way, which worked out better. I thought that the tread on Peters Trail was good, and even though the trail was a tad overgrown in places I enjoyed hiking on it.
On the off-trail portion, we made our way to a drainage that first went west and then northwest toward Tortilla Mountain. I wound up getting out of the drainage and went southwest up toward a ridge, and then had to traverse to tne northwest to meet up to the drainage on the way to a saddle. Once out of the drainage the slopes were steep, brushy, and a bit loose; this made for some slow hiking.
Once up to the saddle above the drainage, the heavy lifting had been done -- it was relatively flat hiking over to the summit block. The south side of the summit block has some intimidating looking cliffs and I could tell that we still had some work to do. We made our to the northeast side of the summit block, where there was a nice break in the cliffs which made for a fairly easy class 2 scramble to the top. Views are great at the top and are some of the best in the Supes imho.
On the way back, I started going north down from the summit block, but didn't like the looks of it so I backtracked and went back down the same way that I came up.
Once back to the saddle, we made a very steep descent to the drainage, and followed the drainage back down. There were several dryfalls that required some short class 3 moves to navigate -- I made good use of the five point-of-contact technique a few times!
If I was to do the hike again, I would both ascend and descend through the drainage rather than doing what I did on the ascent.
In spite of the steep, brushy slopes I enjoyed the hike. I thought that the views were great at the summit and along the way -- the geology is nice in this area. Plus, it was a fun scramble up to the summit. On the way back, I was very happy to get back to the Peters Trail! |
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| | | I did not see the spring but there were some small pools of water that I probably would not filter. | | _____________________
| Civilization is a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there |
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