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.


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Peaks as seen from NW (Sleeping Indian)
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  Two weeks later I
 spotted Kevin down
Thimble summit block.
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Close-up map of the
route. Letters correspond
to picture locations, as
given in text. It took me less
1 hr to top Thimble.
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Context. "A" is
location of 1st photos.
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View W to Castle Tower,
from point A.
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View SW to
Highland and Thimble
from point A.
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View SW from
point B.
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View SSE from
near point C.
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View of Castle Tower,
roughly N from point D.
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View SSE to Highland
Peak, ~point E.
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View of Thimble
summit block, SE
from F.
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Thimble summit block,
View E from G.
The climb is only
~15', only 5' class 4.

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Register on top
of Thimble.
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S from summit block.
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A little peak
Jo-D and I
climbed in 2019.
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View from G, after
I descended. I went
directly, rather than
use route described
by BW.
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From G, view ~S
to Highland Peak.
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View S from H.
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Highland Pk
from I.
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Highland Peak
from J. Break
is out-of-frame
at L.
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Near K, view SE
  to break in cliffs.
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Closer view of break.
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Highland HighPoint
to SW of Highland
Peak (from L).
McCullough in back R.
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This marker is
undocumented
(see here)

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Sports Bra drawn in
for modesty. View
~S from L.
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View N from L.
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Spirit Mt to SSE.
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Register was can-in-can
type, and last user put it
back upside-down,
so it filled with water
and destroyed paper.
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Ireteba Mts to
E from L,
site of bad karma.
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Now I'm heading to M.
There is a break in cliffs
on E side.
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View N from M.
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View SW from M.
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Thimble to N, near
point N.
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Water catchment
at point O.
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View SSE to Highland
Peak from O.
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Ferrous silicates
(tuff alteration)
in descent canyon,
~ P.
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View ~N near Q.
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View ~N
near Q.
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Frozen puddle.
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View ~S near R.
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View ~N near R.
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View SSE near S.
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View ~W to
caves in tuff,
near S.
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View ~S from T.