Mount Humphreys, CA (13986')

Eric K of Las Vegas Mountaineers Club planned this as a dayhike (18 miles RT, over 5000' gain). We took the "scramble" route with two short sections of class 4 (the latter one is exposed). We started at 4AM by headlamp from the hiker parking east of North Lake campsite. We had one hiccup that used about 1 hour, else it went pretty smoothly; I reached the parking at about 6:45 PM.

One 30m rope is enough for the two raps. We also had 75' of 15mm tubular climb-spec webbing, which was useful as a quickly-deployable handline. This route is often guided, so the anchors look pretty well-maintained. We found a few places where people had simply looped cordelettes or webbing over rock horns or even boulders; look for the two good anchors (had rap rings, pitons in Aug 2015). The lowest anchor is above class 3 only.

Thanks to Mark M and others for beta.

Harlan W S, Jodie S, Eric K
Aug 15 , 2015

From North Lake, take a maintained trail to Piute Pass, then cut NNE to the biggest lake near Humphreys.	Only this last part is really rough, with loose scree up to the last 200'--300' of gain	We're near Piute Pass, view ESE, and the sun has just risen
Now we head NNE from the pass to Humphreys, over reasonably easy ground. Our route will be on the L side of the peak.	looking up at the peak from near the last lake.	The talus slog
		I'm looking back at the notch right before the last climb
There is an anchor at the top of the class 3 crack, so I clipped in 75' webbing as a handline.	At the top of the second class 4; still exposed, so I tossed down the webbing handline. Jodies helmet is visible as she enters a crack	View down from summit. The last cl 4 is to R of that rock horn.
The other party descends	On top!	View ~SSW; the distinctive profile of Sill can be seen.
	summit shot by Eric	Heading down. Pippers!
Jodie catches me relaxing before downclimb R to top anchor	Top anchor is to L justa bit down.	1st rap; a bit diagonal. Pic by Jodie.
End 1st rap; next anchor is in back of me. Jodie pic.	Jodie comes down 2nd rap; also a bit diagonal.	Eric's pic of Jodie
heading back to notch, at botom of class 3.	View back UP. The red is class 4 blue is class 3; 1st class 4 is barely noticeable	View UP
The scree is nastier coming down		This is a little lake where we rested
One can see Jodie and Eric at the other end	One last view back at the peak	Trail up to Piute Pass, about 6PM. I went ahead a bit so I could get the car and drive back to the actual TH, and save my buds a short extra walk. It turned out the others were pretty close behind.