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| ShinLV | via North Peak Wash  Date Climbed: Apr 14, 2009 | |
| climbed with another 17 meetup.com members lead by Branch Whitney. Started from North Peak Wash that is a steep but fun scramble route. There were still little patch of snow, but not on the route. Amaizingly there were some water in the Hidden Forest. About 7 miles round trip, over 3,700 ft total elevation gain. Bridge Mountain Hike Album | |
| Posted Mar 19, 2009 10:56 pm | ||
| rpc | Handful | |
| La Cierta Edad (Feb. 15, 2008) Shirley & I climbed this shady route swapping leads. We loved it - one of the best rotues we've done in RR to date. 5.10 rating seemed soft (I'm not trying to be fashionable & talk shit about soft RR ratings....got spanked plenty there) but I guess it all depends on what you like. Wrote a TR here. Birdland (Nov., 2007) Nice route but becoming kinda popular & we had plenty of company. If all of the route was like the last 25 feet, this would no doubt make Gary Clark's updated list of NA Classics....but most of route is OK only :) Frigid Air Buttress (Jan. 26, 2007) Fun route with a short but stout crux (well protected). All belays are on either large legdges or huge ledges. Route gets exactly 0-minutes of sunshine in January (the name is so misleading - I don't understand...??). The OW on P6 is not really much of an OW (esp. if you have long arms). The descent was scarier than anything on the route (I'd do it on twin 70 meter lines next time). Also did bunch of single pitch stuff along Brass Wall & some on the road-face of Bridge, eg. Topless Twins (5.9), Varnishing Point (5.8), Straight Shooter (5.9+) etc.. | |
| Posted Apr 15, 2008 1:01 pm | ||
| rlawson | Via Pine Creek Canyon Date Climbed: Apr 5, 2008 | |
| We had a fun hike up the right side of Pine Creek Canyon (aka Fern Creek). The class 3 scrambling is great here. Alas we lost the route near the end of the canyon. After a couple hours of frustrating route finding, we finally scrambled to the top of the canyon and connected with the normal route from Red Rock Summit going toward the Bridge Mountain summit. I sure however this was not the route we had been looking for. By this time, we were getting late and had to bag the idea of going to the summit so we descended the normal route to the road to Willow Creek. | |
| Posted Apr 10, 2008 9:41 am | ||
| Bob Burd | From Lovell Canyon Rd Date Climbed: Feb 15, 2008 | |
| I guess everyone climbs this one. Well worth the effort and great fun. Cold morning, but warmed up nicely with lots of snow to keep it interesting. Climbed Potosi in the afternoon. Trip Report | |
| Posted Mar 6, 2008 11:09 pm | ||
| WyoNative | Route: Willow Springs Date Climbed: Mar 1, 2008 | |
| Long slog up Rocky Gap Road....Somewhat difficult to find route in the snow. Extremely windy! Climbed again with my husband March 22, 2008. Perfect day, very little wind. Climbed from 2 miles up from Willow Springs on Rocky Gap Road via Red Rock Summit. | |
| Posted Mar 2, 2008 1:36 am | ||
| jimegan | bridge mountain Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2001 | |
| 2nd time with LVMC Climbed from Rocky Gap road trailhead 4/16/07, 4/25/09 Climbed from Willow Springs 5/25/02 Climbed from Pine creek 2/8/06, 10/1/06, 5/2/10, 11/3/10, 1/1/12 Climbed from Icebox Canyon 5/7/06 Climbed from Pine Creek via Yoga Pk 12/5/12 | |
| Posted Feb 14, 2008 2:22 pm | ||
| Desert Solitaire | In Between Dreams Date Climbed: Oct 13, 2007 | |
| Via Red Rock Summit with my friend Jason R. A perfect cloudy day with the best company. The hidden forest is truly magical, as is the whole landscape around the peak. I would love to come back again for Frigid Air Buttress. : ] | |
| Posted Oct 14, 2007 12:38 pm | ||
| alpspitze | From Willow Springs Date Climbed: Apr 15, 2001 | |
| Amazing how hot it can get already in April. Only met 1 other person. Went across to north peak. At the time, I didn't have a solid route description so when I got to the bridge, I didn't go through but passed by to the left and found another way up to the next level. | |
| Posted Sep 25, 2007 9:33 am | ||
| mtnhiker13 | on Trip to Vegas! Date Climbed: Mar 18, 2007 | |
| Climbed with others met on SP and it was a great mountain - lots of fun fun climbing - loved it but it was my first hike of the year and I was very sore the next day! | |
| Posted Jul 27, 2007 8:04 pm | ||
| MoapaPk | many ways Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2001 | |
| Many ways with that ole' RR expert, BW, and with others. The 01-01-01 trip (put that in binary, translate to decimal, and think Las Vegas) was my introduction to Hiking Las Vegas | |
| Posted May 8, 2007 9:39 pm | ||
| Jerry L | Route Climbed: From North Peak Date Climbed: Apr 25, 2007 | |
| Summitted. | |
| Posted May 8, 2007 7:18 pm | ||
| BranchWhitney | Ice Box Canyon Route Date Climbed: May 3, 2002 | |
| Davis and I found this route to Bridge Mountain on the above date. It's my favorite route to Bridge Mountain. The hike can be extended to Bridge Point via a spectacular ledge system. The final scramble to the summit is the best in Red Rock. Been to the summit of Bridge Mtn at least 50 times and lead more than 200 people over the past 10 years. | ||
| Posted May 7, 2007 9:54 am | ||
| Anya Jingle | Via Pine Creek Date Climbed: Apr 24, 2007 | |
| I have done Bridge Mountain many times simply becuse it is an awesome hike. My favorite routes are via North Peak Wash and via North Fork of Pine Creek | |
| Posted Apr 28, 2007 1:39 am | ||
| SusanM | Big Fun... Date Climbed: Mar 17, 2007 | |
| ...with SP members Aaron & Ellen, and some whacky hiking friends. | |
| Posted Mar 20, 2007 11:15 am | ||
| redsplashman23 | Route Climbed: From Red Rock Summit Date Climbed: Feb 24, 2007 | |
| Lots of fun and challenging. | |
| Posted Feb 25, 2007 3:08 pm | ||
| boisedoc | lots of fun Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2002 | |
| Great scambling. Pretty quick if you drive all the way up the road to the pass. | |
| Posted Sep 12, 2006 5:06 am | ||
| Tracy | via Red Rock Summit - 4 times Date Climbed: Nov 23, 2001 | |
| My first time was on November 23, 2001 with Bristol Ellington, Ross Burnett, and Ross's brother-in-law, John Obrey. I brought my sons Lance (age 12)and Travis (age 11) along but they waited in the small forested area just below the summit. We drove our 2-wheel drive, full-size, one-ton Ford Clubwagon van all the way to Red Rock Summit. My second time was on December 17, 2005, with Pete Liscio, who chose to wait at the saddle and avoid the steep stuff. We drove a Jeep up the Willow Springs side and down the Lovell Canyon side. Note: FOR THOSE THINKING OF JEEPING/DRIVING THE BACK SIDE BETWEEN RED ROCK SUMMIT & LOVELL CANYON, IT IS NOT PASSABLE BUT FOR THE HARDIEST OF VEHICLES (LOCKING AXLES, OVERSIZE TIRES, AND LOTS OF GUTS). I did a repeat of the second trip on October 19, 2007 with Steve Dush. Same Jeep route, same hiking route, 5 hours Jeep to Jeep time. 7.5 hours from Steve's house and back. I had new boots that were giving me blisters and ended up doing the sandstone scramble ascent in my barefeet. February 4th, 2011, I took three co-workers - Michael Tassi, Eddie Dichter, and Scott Majewski (and Michael's brother Greg) again from the Red Rock Pass trailhead. Michael and Greg stopped at the big tenaja (huge sandstone pothole full of water) just above the natural bridge and Scott turned around halfway between the tenaja and the very top. Eddie and I signed the summit register then Eddie hiked back to the Jeep with the others while I took a side trip over to Bridge Point which involved a scary exposed traverse I probably wouldn't do alone again. | |
| Posted May 5, 2006 4:57 pm | ||
| SusanM | Via North Peak Wash Date Climbed: Apr 15, 2006 | |
| My eight year old son made it to the summit! Awesome! | |
| Posted Apr 16, 2006 2:16 pm | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: From Lovell Canyon Road Date Climbed: Nov 18, 2005 | |
| Awesome peak in an awesome setting... fantastic scenery, fantastic rock, fantastic scrambling. You can put your feet just about anywhere on the rock here, and they'll stick. Amazing place. Drove about a mile up the Rocky Gap road from Lovell Canyon, hoofing it the rest of the way, tagging North Peak on the way back as an easy bonus. This made for a short day, the first of ten I spent out in southern NV and UT over Thanksgiving. My first visit to Red Rocks, but definitely not my last. | |
| Posted Nov 28, 2005 8:36 pm | ||
| Seth Maciejowski | Route Climbed: 4th class approach from the back side then a rock route on the north side. Date Climbed: March 2002 | |
| A long hike coupled with some stunning class 3-4 climbing and amazing scenery in the natural arch area took us to the base of the summit block. We wanted to climb the northeast arete, but there was ice in the watercourse to get to the base of the route so we forged a line straight up the face above the hidden forest. It was great! Going back however, we decided to pick our way down a gully into Pine Creek Canyon on the north side of the Mescalito. Do not try this unless you want to leave gear! We got sucked in and descended the 600' of slabs then the gully pinched down and we had to do two rappels around 100' waterfalls to reach the floor of the canyon. We downclimbed some 5.6 terrain, but left some gear at the bottom to make the final 90' rappel into the canyon floor. I repeat, do not drop straight south off the col before the 4th class section. There are confusing cairns but this is not the "3rd class" route that we thought it was. | |
| Posted Oct 18, 2005 5:24 pm | ||
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