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| jdmorehouse | Great Mountain, Terrible Road  Date Climbed: Feb 16, 2013 | |
| The road is definitely a 4x4 road now from Buffington Pockets on. That being said, the climb and the general area (Hidden Valley) are the best in the area. Beautiful valley with outstanding sandstone features, and an awesome climb up good rock to the summit. I loved it. We camped over night and scrambled around on the sandstone and limestone cliff bands on some of the northern mountains that ring the valley the next day. | |
| Posted Feb 19, 2013 5:14 pm | ||
| Davtrex | Full day Date Climbed: Apr 29, 2012 | |
| Good climb with my brother and cousin. | ||
| Posted May 8, 2012 12:15 am | ||
| Tracy | NW gully via Hidden valley Date Climbed: Nov 25, 2011 | |
| I climbed this one with my nephews, Spencer and Nathan, on a beautiful fall day. | |
| Posted Nov 26, 2011 1:01 am | ||
| weeds19 | Perfect Winter Day Date Climbed: Jan 15, 2011 | |
| We came in from the south to avoid the long dirt road drive that is part of the typical approach from Las Vegas. We started up Lovell Wash after walking across the desert for a while. We tried to follow the direction set we had in hand, but it turned out that we took a different drainage up the eastern slopes to the main Muddy ridgeline. No matter, we made it to the ridgeline and proceeded to the summit surmounting a couple of minor challenges along the way. The temperature approached 70 on our hike, and most of the day was spend with short sleeves on. Great day and perfect views! | ||
| Posted Jan 16, 2011 12:28 pm | ||
| asmrz | January 01, 2011 Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2011 | |
| Penelope May and I had the most beautiful trip climbing the peak on New Year's Day,2011. The road from the Valley of Fire is bad, bordering on true 4WD in places. Disregard the old DPS (cc 2004) driving instructions, presently high clearance vehicle is absolutely required and you'll be happy to have a 4WD!!! We managed to get within about 1/2 mile of the dirt road's end. The hike via Hidden Valley is really beautiful and the scramble from the saddle up very nice. Aestheticaly, this is one of the best desert peaks we have done in many years, the scenery is outstanding. There was snow on the ground and on the rock, slowing us down a little, but making the scrambling sections really neat. Cold winter day. 8.5 hours RT. | |
| Posted Jan 6, 2011 10:16 pm | ||
| goofball | from the south Date Climbed: Mar 21, 2010 | |
| started from end of road in callville wash. up and into lovell wash and to the peak. a fun scramble to the summit, but otherwise not as remarkable as i thought it would be. still a nice hike tho. then down a SE gully and back to callville wash. | |
| Posted Mar 21, 2010 10:54 pm | ||
| Bob Burd | NW gully via Hiddne Valley Date Climbed: Nov 25, 2009 | |
| Climbed this and nearby Muddy Mtn with Bill Peters on a fine fall day. Trip Report | |
| Posted Dec 13, 2009 10:48 pm | ||
| Kadee | NW Gully via Hidden Valley Date Climbed: Mar 17, 2007 | |
| cp0915 knows the awesome peaks. This was a great hike and an amazing area. I met a 70+ year old man while I was hiking, he was coming down the gully when I saw him - he had a great spirit about him and it was nice meeting him. | |
| Posted Nov 12, 2008 5:15 pm | ||
| jimegan | Muddy Peak Date Climbed: Dec 29, 2001 | |
| Climbed with Ed, Richard and Mike | |
| Posted Feb 11, 2008 10:32 am | ||
| alpspitze | NW Gully Date Climbed: Apr 17, 2007 | |
| Nice Mountain. Amazing how hot it can get in the valley even in April. The last stretch reminded me of the Northern Limestone Alps. | |
| Posted Jun 16, 2007 6:39 pm | ||
| Anya Jingle | Ascent via East Canyon, descent through Hidden Valley Date Climbed: Mar 1, 2006 | |
| This is an awesome loop that allows one to climb both Muddy Peak and Muddy High Point. Muddy High Point is not as impressive as Muddy Peak, but it is the highest peak in Muddy Mountains. The slideshow is here: Muddy Traverse | |
| Posted Jan 27, 2007 9:44 pm | ||
| brianhughes | NW Gully via Hidden Valley Date Climbed: Nov 26, 2006 | |
| This is about as good as it gets. Muddy is now tied with Moapa as my favorite desert peak. | |
| Posted Nov 30, 2006 12:19 am | ||
| redsplashman23 | NW gully via Hidden Valley Date Climbed: Nov 18, 2006 | |
| What a challenge. The class 3 part was fun. About 4.2 miles to the summit. The last time the summit log was signed was March 6, 2006. | |
| Posted Nov 19, 2006 2:36 am | ||
| MoapaPk | SE side Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2003 | |
| Actually, 3 times so far. First time, We came in from the SE, went up Lovell Wash, then eventually cut NE up to the ridgeline. From there, we went ~0.3 miles NNW to the summit. Class 3 on the NE route and part of the ridge. Unfortunately, this route now requires about 2 miles more RT. In 2003, BLM closed off the dirt roads to accommodate the new, larger wilderness area. Now the bighorn sheep will be protected from hikers, but not the people who want to blow their brains out with bullets. | |
| Posted May 12, 2006 11:11 pm | ||
| DonnieB | NW Gully via Hidden Valley Date Climbed: Feb 13, 2006 | |
| Fun hike with awesome company and we added an exploratory descent north down ridge looking up from Hidden Valley as shown in Harlan's GPS tracks. Here is a link for some more usefull info for Muddy Peak includeing Images, GPS, Map etc. Donnie B. Met a couple of nice guys on summit who had hiked together for over 40 years. | |
| Posted Feb 22, 2006 6:02 pm | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: NW Gully via Hidden Valley Date Climbed: Nov 20, 2005 | |
| I couldn't make it all the way to the TH in my Subaru (or at least, I didn't have the courage to try), but I got pretty close... I misidentified another dirt road in the vicinity as the TH access (it petered out after 1/2 mile), and only reoriented myself when I gained the adjacent ridge en route. It's kind of a slog to reach the base of the peak, but the scrambling along the ridge and up to the summit makes it worthwhile. Quite fun. The downclimb certainly had my undivided attention--although only rated class 3, there's just enough exposure and more than enough isolation out here to make it inadvisable to fall, especially if you're out solo... had originally intended to tag the Muddy Mtns highpoint as well on a loop back, but it looked like a boring walk-up. I bailed on that plan, opting for the early return and a comfortable motel room instead. Day 3 of my southern NV/UT tour. | |
| Posted Nov 28, 2005 9:09 pm | ||
| SusanM | Route Climbed: Date Climbed: March 5, 2005 | |
| A nice challenge. | |
| Posted Jul 24, 2005 8:08 pm | ||
| Day Hiker | Route Climbed: NW Gully via Hidden Valley Date Climbed: 05 March 2005 | |
| A great peak with great company. | |
| Posted Mar 7, 2005 10:04 pm | ||
| cp0915 | NW gully via Hidden Valley | |
| First time was solo in the winter of...'03 or '04, I suppose. Good fun. 3-5-05: 2nd time, with Day Hiker, Susan (?) and a few others I can't remember (nothing personal, just don't remember who). | |
| Posted Mar 7, 2005 4:21 pm | ||
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