7083 and 6970 in East Mormon Peaks

Pics by Harlan W S
April 6, 2021

This was just five days after my 2nd covid vaccine shot, but the exhaustion was pretty much over. I had planned a longer loop, but the terrain proved rougher than I expected. The ascent gully off Horse Springs had been burned, and was now choked with brush. There were lots of cow signs, and I started to worry a bit about ticks; indeed two were on me, and one had just embedded. I really liked 6970, but it has only ~150' prominence, and getting up that way required some really miserable terrain, with side-hilling on steep, loose, sharp talus, or very sticky plants. For just 7083, I would recommend the route from Hackberry Springs, as described on summitpost. This trip did give me beta for future trips.

The Horse Hollow Road has been bladed since I was there last, and is currently 2wd with decent clearance and power.

Numbers correspond ~to photo locations. I started walking ~5000', followed the road to its end. My route up was to N following cow trails; descent was through gully. Grid is 1 km.	Context map	5804 on drive in by Rainbow Pass Rd. Only known rte is class 5; there may be a break on opposite side.
RC toy 4x4 at end of Horse Hollow Rd.	The gully was still rough up by 1.	At 3, there was a natural shallow cave.
View out from cave.	Outside cave, view to Moapa Peak.	Just below Peak 6970, View~ NW.
Peak 7083 ~SE	On way up 6970, View NE.	The "crux" from the ridgeline is just exposed class 2.
View back SW at 6970. Photo is deceiving; the L side drops off to a cliff.	Partway along ridge to 7083, 5804 to L.	Bangs is peak in skyline, Davidson is next range below that. View ~E
From top 7083, view ~E	View ~SE from 7083	Moapa from 7083
	View ~ENE
View ~SW toward Moapa	Again, ~ENE	Back along ridge, there is one class 3 unless one wants to deal with steep thick brush.
Looking up class 3 chute.	Back for 2nd summit of 6970	7083 as seen from 6970
	View ~NNE from 6970. Sorry for the arrogance, this started as a tick check. I'm still light, about 133 lbs after severe covid-19.	Heading down, cave is down at R, out of sight. This is one break in cliffs
Down at 2, 1st break I found in cliffs with a class 2+ chute.	At 9, view NNW	At 10. A hunter probably dropped this gun lock (blue) and webbing belt- holster, and some nice guy attached them here to be found.
Also at 10, active cattle watering from Horse Spring.	Back at car. Now the numbers on skyline reflect the locations indicated on first map.	Moapa Pk, as seen on drive out on Rainbow Pass road.
7083, as seen near HackBerry Road.	Out-of-order pic of 5804. There may be a class 4 work-around at L of the center of middle cliff band. Taken from Horse Hollow Rd.	For the patient! Red is current trip. Blue is trip Anji and I made in 2019. Green is hypothetical route from S. Purple is Horse Hollow Road.