Jumbo, Packard Peak, Lime Ridge in Gold Butte (NV)

Harlan WS + Eric K
February 27-28, 2016

This LVMC trip was led by Eric.  We drove up on a Saturday, climbed Packard Peak (close to a wilderness highpoint), then traversed over to Jumbo Peak.  This was my 3x up Jumbo, and I wanted to set a rap anchor for a group coming in 2 weeks. We had a pleasant night at the Gold Butte Townsite, and next day went up the highpoint of Lime Ridge.

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Packard Peak from below;
you can take the R side of the
summit block for a Cl 2 route		 DSCN0454
Jumbo from Packard
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zoom more. The summit
block of Jumbo is a 100'
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John Ide.
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Eric chugs up.		 DSCN0462
View N		 DSCN0463_stitch
View SE from Packard
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Now I'm up to S of
Jumbo, looking at
the entrance of intriguing
crack we took across the
E side. 2 weeks later
I figured how to avoid
some catclaws.		 DSCN0471
This is the S 5.1 route.
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Now we are heading N
through the crack on the
E side of peak.		 DSCN0478 DSCN0479
I used my squeeze
tunnel (1st discovered
by Andy Martin) and
dropped a handline
from the top
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we rapped down to the
ledge and out the chute.
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The main chute on
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Our camp		 DSCN0497
tent sweet tent
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Next day was Lime Ridge		 DSCN0499 DSCN0500
Jumbo to SE
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Virgin Peak to N		 DSCN0509
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Virgin Peak to N		 DSCN0518
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On top, photo by Eric		 DSCN0519 DSCN0520