Veteran's Gully to Monument, Hidden, Mountain Springs Peak, and the 2 Black Velvets.

Barb's Birthday Hike! In a sense, we went over 6 peaks, including Veteran's, but Veteran's probably has less than 30' of prominence! The only peak with over 300' prominence was Mountain Springs Peak, but the route to the other 4 was pretty convoluted and involved lots of elevation gains and losses.

Harlan W S
February 06, 2015

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Map of the trip,
counterclockwise.
Veteran's Gully is so
steep and narrow that
GPS often loses lock.		 DSCN8715
We're about 0.7 mile
 from the car, looking
NW at Burlap Buttress.
We will go right of
the Buttress.		 DSCN8716
Our off-ramp for the
Veteran's Gully.
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3 shots of Barb coming up
very steep sections of
Veteran's Gully!		 DSCN8720 DSCN8721
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Now Barb is on the
totally magnificent
Veteran's Peak,
looking WNW to
Monument. We must
go to the R.		 DSCN8725
We tried enhancing the
cairns here.		 DSCN8728
On top of Monument!
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View NE over Wilson to
Madre/Calico area.		 DSCN8731 DSCN8734
View back over the
tanks of Momument
-- a bit dry this year
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We take the fast way
down between
Monument and Hidden;
we each carried a 20m
8mm rope, and tied
the ropes together.		 DSCN8738
Hidden, with Monument
in back		 DSCN8741
NE over Wilson
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now we cross over to
the limestone ridge;
view of Black Velvet.		 DSCN8750
Richard Natale's
favorite arch.		 DSCN8751
Black Velvet peaks
on right side of canyon.
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Mt Spring Peak,
with Potosi
in back.		 DSCN8755
Now we drop down
o Black Velvet.
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Higher BV peak ahead		 DSCN8760 DSCN8762
Now we head to lower
"official" BV peak.
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On official BV peak.		 DSCN8764
Windy Peak to S;
Potosi in back		 DSCN8768
We will descend
that ridge.
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Peter Barndt pig head.
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little summits in way to E.		 DSCN8778
The official BV peak
looks almost like a
real mountain
from here!		 DSCN8779
Over East Monument
and East Peak.
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View back.  We
went up the R side,
came down the L.