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Nevada High Points #89 – Calico Mountains

Nevada High Points #89 – Calico Mountains

Posted on October 19, 2021by D. Craig YoungLeave a comment on Nevada High Points #89 – Calico Mountains

Donnelly Peak 8533 ft (2588 m) – 2317 ft gain 2021.09.12 There is a problem with names in this part of the desert. And, as a geographer and some-time chronicler of Great Basin landforms, I strive to maintain a sense of where I am. It stands to reason that the…

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Nevada High Points #88 – Butte Spring Hills

Nevada High Points #88 – Butte Spring Hills

Posted on October 18, 2021by D. Craig YoungLeave a comment on Nevada High Points #88 – Butte Spring Hills

Peak 6507 6507 ft (1983 m) – 910 ft gain 2021.09.11 On Nevada Highway 34, a wonderful dirt road north of Gerlach, there is a steep right-hand turn just after the Lund Petrified Forest. The forest consists of a couple of upright trees trapped behind a fenced enclosure, but we…

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Nevada High Points #87 – Anchorite Hills

Nevada High Points #87 – Anchorite Hills

Posted on September 6, 2021by D. Craig Young4 Comments on Nevada High Points #87 – Anchorite Hills

Powell Mountain 9530 ft (2905 m) – 1988 ft gain 2021.08.13 It took a long time to get going today. Smoke from Sierran wildfires has filled Carson Valley for weeks it seems – now the typical summer atmosphere, and the heat has been oppressive, forged one-to-one with the unending haze.…

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Nevada High Points #86 – East Gate Range

Nevada High Points #86 – East Gate Range

Posted on August 2, 2021by D. Craig YoungLeave a comment on Nevada High Points #86 – East Gate Range

Grayback Mountain 7510 ft (2289 m) – 1200 ft gain 2021.07.11 Well, that didn’t take long. I must have gotten a little sleep. It is, at most, four hours after returning from Peak 6632, which we summited soon after midnight, and Darren and I are headed for our approach to…

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Nevada High Points #85 – Broken Hills

Nevada High Points #85 – Broken Hills

Posted on August 1, 2021by D. Craig YoungLeave a comment on Nevada High Points #85 – Broken Hills

Peak 6632 6632 ft (2021 m) – 600 ft gain 2021.07.10 It has been a strange week, but maybe this is just how they are now. A 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook our house, Portland hit 113° (and Gardnerville not much less), the Beckwourth Fire Complex continues to rampage, and monsoon-like storms…

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Nevada High Points #84 – Leviathan Hills

Nevada High Points #84 – Leviathan Hills

Posted on June 23, 2021by D. Craig Young1 Comment on Nevada High Points #84 – Leviathan Hills

Nevada Hill 8,048 ft (2,453 m) — 950 ft gain 2021.06.14 Irreversibly altered by wildfire – 2021.07.19 I have been here before, a couple times. On those two previous walks, I have not been successful in reaching the summit of Nevada Hill. It is not a prominent peak; it is…

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Nevada High Points #83 – Toiyabe Range

Nevada High Points #83 – Toiyabe Range

Posted on May 31, 2021by D. Craig YoungLeave a comment on Nevada High Points #83 – Toiyabe Range

Arc Dome 11,788 ft (3593 m) – 4005 ft gain 2021.05.14 Sometimes life gets in the way. As Second Friday approached, it appeared the workaday world required more that its usual allocation. Although I am fortunate to have spent much of my career working outside and have been overlanding since…

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Nevada High Points #82 – Mount Irish Mountains

Nevada High Points #82 – Mount Irish Mountains

Posted on May 31, 2021by D. Craig YoungLeave a comment on Nevada High Points #82 – Mount Irish Mountains

Mount Irish 8473 ft; 2665 m. 2200 ft gain. 2021.04.11 It is April’s Second Friday, so that means it is time for a backcountry recce, but first, I get vaccinated. It is my second shot. Although I had no side-effects other than a sore arm the first time around, I…

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Nevada High Points #81: Little High Rock Mountains

Nevada High Points #81: Little High Rock Mountains

Posted on April 16, 2021by D. Craig Young1 Comment on Nevada High Points #81: Little High Rock Mountains

Mahogany Mountain 6979 ft (2127m) — 1510 ft gain 2021.03.27 Although I had been able to visit the Cuprite Hills on the journey south, fieldwork along the Gila Mountains of southern Arizona postponed our Second Friday overland recce for March. To keep our run going, however, we took to northwestern…

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Nevada High Points #80: Cuprite Hills

Nevada High Points #80: Cuprite Hills

Posted on March 20, 2021by D. Craig Young2 Comments on Nevada High Points #80: Cuprite Hills

Cuprite Hills HP (Peak 6071) 6071 ft (1850 m) — 1503 ft gain 2021.03.10 When I first imagined a quest of climbing to the high point of each of Nevada’s named mountain ranges, as I studied my collection of topographic maps, it came as a solution to a problem. As…

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