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| Hiking | 5.85 Miles |
1,365 AEG |
| | Hiking | 5.85 Miles | 4 Hrs 26 Mns | | 1.70 mph |
| 1,365 ft AEG | 59 Mns Break | | | |
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| partners | | First hike of the day. Started from pretty much straight east of Signal and headed west. Easy hiking across the mostly flat desert. Gradually started climbing. Then it got steeper, and rockier. Then steeper, and steeper, with an exciting ascent up a ball bearing slope. As we turned south, the footing got a little better. Then we turned northwest for the final scramble up to the summit. It’s steep, with some loose rock in places, but mostly a scramble up the rocks. I don’t think it exceeded class 3, but it was nearing the limits of what I’m willing to do.
Great views from the top. Could hear some bighorns to the west of us, and finally caught a view of one from a distance. It sort of sounded like it was moo-ing, but was definitely a bighorn.
The scramble off the summit was not as bad as I feared it would be. The ball bearing slope was slow going. After that, the rest of the hike was easy. Good call from John in suggesting we do Signal first. The drive in from the north has a lot of deep sand. High clearance 4wd encouraged. |
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