MJ Peak via Mummy South Ridge (Nevada near Vegas)

Harlan W S & Maxie J
Oct 01 , 2015
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MJ Peak is named after Maxie Jayme (all-around good person). It got that name via confused reading of registers, but the name stuck. Though it has just 115' of prominence (relative to a very narrow saddle), it is as hard to reach as any peak in the Mummy chain. The three times I've climbed it, I've descended a cliff, twice unroped. This time we wanted to see what a rappel would be like over that same cliff. We also wanted to introduce Maxie to "her" peak.

I first reached this peak with Barb S and Mike B in 2014, no register on top then.

Here's the route. You could just take the scree slope up Mummy, or slog up the awful talus descent route (the latter avoids nasty downclimb). We took the South Ridge for fun.	Starting up the SR. Soon we will be above that cliff.	View down past Cockscomb as we start the ridge.
second class 3 chute		The class 4 wall

Optional class 4 chute		View from above
	Last class 3+ chute	MJ takes a harder route.
That's the peak we are heading towards		On top of Mummy.
	Now we start the downclimb.	Jim raps down
Maxie downclimbed this stretch, as I have done in the past.	Maxie and Jim start up from saddle.	up, up
		topping out
View W toward Mummy
View E... pretty rough	coming back down	View S from notch
the class 3+ downclimb... it's safest to jump, right?	down the long scree slope