 From the east: park at
36.02316, -115.44700 on road to Mud Springs |
 Hiking west to
Mud Springs Canyon. Windy Peak at L, Ridge to Black Velvet at R. |
 On N side of Mud Springs Cr, At end of deep canyon, take L in brush for Global. |
 One descends around steep wall (in map above) and heads to L up sunny rock. |
 Steep wall from previous picture is behind Barb View ESE. |
 View S across steep gully, to "inverted" triangle of greenery. See full-sized image. Global hidden at L. |
 On way to Gully One passes over many ridges on a steep slope, and climbs UP to drop into gully. View NE. |
 We've dropped into NE-trending gully, will take exit on right around creepy corner. |
 On top! Vegas in back, view ENE over ridge to Black Velvet. |
 Windy Peak to SE |
 View W from non-descript summit. |
 On descent: don't go here. Take creepy corner at L into steep gully. |
 There is a rope here, but we didn't actually need it. |
 Many dicey small descents on steep sub-ridges |
 View back S to site of previous picture. After the overhang, one winds R and climbs a bit, then drops L into steep gully. |
 Another ridgelet, another view S. |
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 View ~E |
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 We're almost back to steep wall. |
 We've descended below wall, about to drop back in Mud Cr Canyon. |
 We've kept on rough cairned trail on N side of canyon. View back W at Global. |
 From the west:
Park on cell tower road and hike up to limestone ridge. |
 Potosi in back, to S. We've reached the main limestone ridge. |
 We continue on spur trail on another ridge. Sandstone of Windy Peak visible in distance. We'll drop L off this ridge in ~1/2 mile. |
 Weve dropped ~450' vertical from the limestone ridge, and are looking esat to Global. |
 Barb sidling across. View W |
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 One of many class 3 sections. |
 Down the last slot. |
 View SE as folks traverse. |
 On top! |
 The traverse to Windy starts with a deep slot |
 View NW as we start on cross-over t Windy |
 View NW |
 Coming up Windy |
 On Windy! |
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