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| Hiking | 14.74 Miles |
3,954 AEG |
| | Hiking | 14.74 Miles | 5 Hrs 59 Mns | | 2.79 mph |
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| no partners | | Completed three separate hikes in isolated NW Arizona today.
1. Banging It Out (black).
Making up is half the fun after the hairball two hour drive from Mesquite, NV through Lime Kiln Canyon and then north on BLM 1004. The final section of road to the trailhead adds insult to injury by pinstriping your vehicle. I would have preferred to climb on top of (a) Virgin Peak instead, but this quicky was better logistically. The area reminded me of the Grand Canyon's Powell Plateau area. It was also a fairly easy, straightforward route with a satisfying payoff. 
2. Black Rock Mountain 7368-T (red).
Further along FR 1004 east of Elbow Canyon and also in the Paiute Wilderness. On the south side, there's an old, nearly indescernable road that becomes a game trail and crosses a clearing. After this meadow, there are zigzagging elk trails below juniper, oak and ponderosa that ascend the hillside. The final push was through snow drifts and mostly non-spiny plants (some locust). Near the top, I had to gap a fence to reach the reddish-black lava rock summit. Better views than expected, especially of the Virgin Mountains to the southwest and the Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness north of St. George. 
3. Mokaac Trail (yellow)
First I completed the multiuse middle section out and back from the main signed trailhead along BLM 1069. The south part of this trail system is a more obscure loop that crosses the road on its south side where there's another parking area. I did this loop CCW, adding a side trip to Quail Spring. Descended the final east side steep part at dusk, occasionally looking at my six for stalking lions. 
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