Boulder + Bonus Peak (Lake Mead, NV Area)

January 01, 2008

pics by Harlan W. S.
Jan. 01, 2008

 

No better way to start the new year, than with a little leg-stretcher.  Normally this is an 18 mile RT, but we managed to make it 20 with an exploratory “oops” and a neat little bonus peak. The daylight was limited, but we used methods to shorten the time taken for the leveler stretches (for me, the solution involved jogging a total of ~11 miles).

 

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One starts at the same trailhead as

Hamblin Mountain, in Cottonwood Wash.

Navigation in the numerous confusing washes

is very hard.

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We enter the Pinto valley, and get the

1st view of Sentinel.

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View E to Sentinel.

 

 

 

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Now we climb out of Boulder Wash, up the

eastern shoulder of Boulder Peak. View is NW 

up backside of Sentinel.

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A rare view of CP behind me.

The Muddy Mountains are in the

distance.  Pkt consists of Paleozoic

limestones on Pinto Ridge, Ja is Jurassic

sandstone .  Ti is the intrusive rock thought

to have fed the Cleopatra-Hamblin Volcano.

 The Pinto Valley is between Pkt and Ti.

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View ~NE from the top.

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View NNE to Redstone Peaks.

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View SW across Lake Mead

 

 

 

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Snow-covered Spring Mts. are to

the W.

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View SE. Guardian at L, Arch Mt at R.

 

 

 

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What’s wrong with this photo?

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Muddy is in distance; the pink “Bonus Peak

is in the middle.  Here’s a view of Bonus Peak,

view S, from across the valley (it’s R of middle

in the latter pic).

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We descended the more

western ridge of Boulder.

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Now we’re in Pinto Valley, looking S at Bonus

Peak for ascent routes.  CP had a nasty

chockstone on his route.  I had some10’

dryfalls, but all had lots of texture, the biggest

danger was the friable rock.

 

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Looking down my ascent valley.

 

 

 

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The top is up there somewhere to W.

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CP gets the better of his chockstone.

Sentinel is at R in distance.

 

 

 

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Down…

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The pass where the old road descends and turns L

(near 736.6)

 

 

 

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