| It has been a rough year. I couldn't help being sentimental, sometimes sad, thinking of times past on Hidden Peak. Here's a map of a few of the trips. The dates are repeated below, one border color for each date. |
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 Oct 12, 2025. 1st view of the east side of Red Rock (Sandstone Pk) after climb from Rainbow Springs |
 Zoom to Sandstone Pk. I made it to Sandstone 1st in 2006. |
 Now I'm dropping off the limestone, view of Black Velvet Peak. I 1st went to Black Velvet in 2001. |
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 Monument (L), Hidden (R). |
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 Of course Barb has been here recently. |
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 Monument to E |
 Wilson NNE |
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 The Park (Little Zion) |
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Now sentiment: 2002-2024 |
 Dec 15, 2002. View from Hidden, the 1st Red Rock Peak I climbed after a very serious brainstem stroke on Mar 08, 2002. Leader was "Branch Whitney." |
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 Huddle on Hidden. We were actually just resting on the way to Monument. Bill Payne, standing at L, passed away in 2010. |
 Nov 13, 2007. Lori C asked for a back recuperation hike. we mainly wanted to go to "The Park..." |
 ...but kept wandering east till... |
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 We ended up on Hidden. |
 This is barely legible, and you can barely see it was placed by Branch Whitney in 1997. Registers hardly last a year now. The top closed contour is 6280' on the old USGS map, but there is 10-20' of rock above that. |
 Lori heads back west under the cliffs |
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 View back at Monument (L) and Hidden (R) |
 Notice the map at top has a spot labeled "drop-in." This was the trip where Lori dubbed these pools "String of Pearls," and a bit later she and Rick I. did the first descent. |
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 Near the drop back to Rainbow Springs. |
 Oct 12, 2008, we did the full Monument Traverse with Branch, and a rap between Monument and Hidden Peaks. |
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 Below Monument arch. |
 We rapped off Monument, then went to Hidden (in the back of pic). The rap achor was a few pitons. |
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 on Hidden, Wilson in back |
 Luba starts descent into Black Velvet Canyon. |
 Descent into Black Velvet Canyon. |
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 Jan 21, 2015. Jim Egan at L, Peter Barndt in red, Barb below. Peter had heart surgery previous summer, 80 y.o. |
 View ~W in Black Velvet Canyon. |
 Folks come up the crappy canyon to Hidden. |
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 Peter and Tom at summit. Peter died in 2021. |
 Tom Thayer on Descent |
 The next month, Feb 06, 2015, was Barb's 65th birthday, and we did a long loop over Veterans Monument, Hidden, Mountain Springs Peak, and down over Black Velvet. Here is where the route gets tough. |
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 Coming up one of the class 4 parts. |
 Barb raps off the top of Monument, Hidden Peak in back. The anchor was now bolted. |
 Barb on Hidden, Monument in back. |
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 Famous arch as we head to Mountain Springs Peak |
 Barb comes up rabbit hole on way to Black Velvet. |
 Flash forward to Oct 27, 2024. Barb and crew had made this a leg-stretch shoulder-season hike, starting at route 160, going along the limestone ridge over Mountain Springs Peak. |
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 Barb, with Hidden and Monument at R |
 View down BV canyon, with BV peak at R. |
 View back S along limestone ridge. |
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 Susan (L), Jen, Dvora on Hidden. |
 We met Carlton on top (R). He asked if we were a group, and I answered, "Over 70." |
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