Thimble and Highland Peaks, NV

Pics by Harlan W S
Dec 17, 2022

I've been up Castle Tower 7x, but hadn't been to this side of the range in almost 20 years.
I went to get beta for a friend... who's already been there! Highland Peak was named by Courtney P, and Thimble by Branch Whitney. Thimble has just ~200' prominence, and the "Class 4" section requires just about 8' of class 4, but one is well advised to double-check all holds. The canyon up was nicer than the canyon I took down, the later being partly-filled with difficult-to-avoid brush.

	Peaks as seen from NW (Sleeping Indian)	Two weeks later I spotted Kevin down Thimble summit block.
Close-up map of the route. Letters correspond to picture locations, as given in text. It took me less 1 hr to top Thimble.	Context. "A" is location of 1st photos.	View W to Castle Tower, from point A.
View SW to Highland and Thimble from point A.	View SW from point B.	View SSE from near point C.
View of Castle Tower, roughly N from point D.	View SSE to Highland Peak, ~point E.	View of Thimble summit block, SE from F.
Thimble summit block, View E from G. The climb is only ~15', only 5' class 4.	Register on top of Thimble.	S from summit block.
A little peak Jo-D and I climbed in 2019.	View from G, after I descended. I went directly, rather than use route described by BW.	From G, view ~S to Highland Peak.
View S from H.	Highland Pk from I.	Highland Peak from J. Break is out-of-frame at L.
Near K, view SE to break in cliffs.	Closer view of break.	Highland HighPoint to SW of Highland Peak (from L). McCullough in back R.
This marker is undocumented (see here)	Sports Bra drawn in for modesty. View ~S from L.	View N from L.
Spirit Mt to SSE.	Register was can-in-can type, and last user put it back upside-down, so it filled with water and destroyed paper.	Ireteba Mts to E from L, site of bad karma.
	Now I'm heading to M. There is a break in cliffs on E side.	View N from M.
	View SW from M.	Thimble to N, near point N.
	Water catchment at point O.	View SSE to Highland Peak from O.
Ferrous silicates (tuff alteration) in descent canyon, ~ P.	View ~N near Q.	View ~N near Q.
Frozen puddle.	View ~S near R.	View ~N near R.
View SSE near S.		View ~W to caves in tuff, near S.
View ~S from T.