Northern Nevada (Augusta, Lewis, Jackson HP, Duffer)

Harlan W S & Joel B
May 24-25, 2014

The object of this trip was to hike four P4K (4000' of prominence) peaks in two days (plus days on the ends to drive to and back from the area). None had substantial hike lengths or elevation gains, but three peaks required 4x4 vehicles to make the hikes short enough to fit in two days, as the peaks were separated by hundreds of miles. This is a very dry year, but we still had some snow. Thanks to Eric and Joel for driving!

First up was Mount Augusta. We reached a decent camp in War Canyon about 7:30PM the night before. Here's a large-scale map of roads.	The route from the last 4x4 spot requires about 2300' accumulated gain.	Starting out SE.
The route starts on an old road.	Augusta appears in center distance.
	View from summit. Desatoya Twins across valley.
		Relay station on top (very new).

View ~NNW
	Descending. View back to top.
		Phlox
Granite Gilia	Bluebells

	Augusta on way out.	Next that day -- Lewis, S of Battle Mt. This can be a drive-up to within 100'. We chose to walk a little.
	View S off road.
Courtesy Joel B.


We stayed that night by the Red Bird Mine on the W side of Jackson HP. We had to pull some really big rocks out of the road.		View E from our camp by the mine.
Next morn we drove up a bit till the road at ~7900' was blocked by a huge boulder. Adit at the last parking.
	View S to King Lear from top.	View NE across vast tableland at top.



		That same day, we drove up and headed W on what was a very rough road, to meet Dave and Al at Blue Lake. The next day we drove out the more sedate W route.
We started from Blue Lake about 11:45, and headed toward Duffer. Kay and I got separated from the rest of the group and traversed to the top to avoid snow. I think we were on the highest point, and there was a register.	The mapping by photo- grammetry is ambiguous. The two marked elevations represent distinct rocky areas on the aerial photos, and not necessarily local highpoints. The 9400'+ peaklets in the middle are tree-covered, and not suitable for elevation checks.	Starting out on hike.
Blue Lake.
View N as Kay works up summit ridge.	I visited this point to S, Which is the site of the 9428' mark on maps. It is definitely lower than peaklet with register, but was probably a sharper target for photogrammetric elevations.
		Kay back on peak with register.
	Joel and Jodie showed up ~30 minutes later. The rest of the group arrived about 45- 50 minutes after that.
Kay looks NE.
		Down through the snow.
	Back at Blue Lake.