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| Hiking | 13.23 Miles |
1,962 AEG |
| | Hiking | 13.23 Miles | 8 Hrs 15 Mns | | 1.79 mph |
| 1,962 ft AEG | 52 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | This peak has been on my radar screen for a while, and I decided to take advantage of a relatively cool day to hike up to the summit.
I came in on Poco Dinero Road, and took a lesser road to my parking spot, which was at the wilderness boundary.
I started off across the desert floor, and fortunately stumbled upon a good use trail that I took for a couple of miles. Then I went through a wide wash for 3 miles or so before making my ascent to Bunyan Peak.
I did not intend to ascend the way that I did, but it worked. I basically went straight for some cliff bands and was able to find a weakness in the bands to get up and over them. I did have to do a few short class 3 moves, but there was nothing very sketchy.
There were some nice views at the summit so I enjoyed being up there. Not many people make it up to this peak -- the prior entry to mine in the summit register was over 5 years ago. The log was placed there by MacLilly back in 1998.
I had a couple of GPS tracks that I decided to follow for the descent, but the route that I took down was terrible -- very steep with some really loose terrain. It was steep on loose dirt, with the dirt being covered with loose rocks. It was painstakingly slow but I somehow managed to make back down.
Once I got back down to the wash, I went back that same way that I came. It was a long and tedious hike on the way back though.
I had some flatlining issues on my phone, so the stats above are what I recorded on garmin. |
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| Civilization is a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there |
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