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| goofball | from carruthers  Date Climbed: Apr 27, 2009 | |
| beautiful range ! loved the hike and scramble to the ny bm. | |
| Posted Apr 28, 2009 3:14 pm | ||
| SeanReedy | Caruthers Canyon Date Climbed: Feb 21, 2009 | |
| A scenic hike and scramble to end a week in the Mojave. Snow, my two whining dogs, a fear of heights, and lack of any equipment or partner kept me from attempting to make it up the final 50 feet or so this time. Snow, icicles, and cascades made for a scenic day and kept myself and the dogs from feeling hot and thirsty as weather began to turn more spring-like after winter storms the prior weekend. | |
| Posted Feb 23, 2009 1:25 am | ||
| Bob Burd | Keystone Canyon Date Climbed: Mar 15, 2007 | |
| I didn't find it nearly as classic as Matthew did, but rather just so-so. Last bit of the summit rocks was good, but none of the rocky desert washes that make for more fun on what I'd call a "classic" (check out Sheephole, for example). Trip Report | |
| Posted Mar 27, 2007 8:58 pm | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Keystone Canyon Date Climbed: Feb 25, 2007 | |
| Awesome peak, one of the best desert peaks I've ever climbed. Keystone Canyon was very scenic, and the summit rocks are a blast... really fun and fairly exposed class 3. Terrific views from the top, too. Climbed with Rick after tagging Teutonia first thing in the morning. Cold and windy, but a really fun day. | |
| Posted Mar 4, 2007 4:29 pm | ||
| MoapaPk | Keystone X2 Date Climbed: Jan 17, 2007 | |
| NY Mt. trip Parked my Subaru ~2 miles or so up dirt road -- hike was still only 6.2 miles RT. Lots of washouts in the road. The old mine road (malachite, azurite, sphalerite, probably mined cuprite or sulfides) and the tailings from the high drift go nearly to the ridgeline. EDIT: I did find the "class 3 route" that matched Streeyyer's photo -- at least, I found that last top chute. The chute looks worse than it actually is -- the rock is very frictional and tough. However, I think I took a different path up to that last section of chute. The DPS register needs some pencils. There are 4 ballpoint pens, and only one was working (marginally). Update -- went again Nov 15/08 for a club trip -- folks were quite surprised to find this in the Mojave, 90 minutes south of Vegas... Several folks said I should really call it low class 4, not class 3. | |
| Posted Jan 18, 2007 12:19 am | ||
| Desert Solitaire | Keystone/Caruthers Canyon hybrid Date Climbed: Feb 11, 2006 | |
| Excellent Desert Peakbagging weekend with D. Mantle. Clark and New York for today. Went slightly astray and battled through tons of desert brush and boulders. The summit rocks are fun 3rd/4th class. | |
| Posted Feb 14, 2006 2:50 am | ||
| crag | Route Climbed: From Keystone Canyon Date Climbed: November 28, 2003 | |
| Fun peak! Out there, good solitude, routefinding, fun scrambling. If you have high clearance 4WD you can get pretty far up Keystone Canyon to some very nice campsites. I also could not find the 3rd class route and ended up in class 4 territory with a few 5th class moves. Getting back down again was challenging. | |
| Posted Nov 1, 2005 12:30 pm | ||
| easleygone | Route Climbed: Caruthers Canyon Date Climbed: Aug 1995 | |
| A very scenic and enjoyable climb; old mines, varying terrain, good views. Big surprise at the top! I wore myself out trying to find the class 3 route. Finally located a cl 4 chute up through the boulders and topped it off. | ||
| Posted Jul 31, 2005 10:36 am | ||
| cp0915 | Route Climbed: Caruthers Canyon Date Climbed: March 12, 2005 | |
| Caruthers Canyon is very scenic, particularly as you get back in near the mine. There were small cascades everywhere. The hike up to the base of the summit block was short and easy, brushy at times, but rather enjoyable. I never found the class 3 crack heading up the summit block; instead, I utilized a 4th class chute with a single 5.8 move right before the summit. The summit views were enormous. Also bagged the summit of the prominent crag to the northeast via a series of steep and exposed chimneys - was very cool. I'd go back simply to do the crags again. | |
| Posted Mar 14, 2005 10:40 am | ||
| streeyyr | New York Mountain Date Climbed: Apr 15, 2002 | |
| A classic Mojave Desert peak. | |
| Posted Jan 11, 2005 12:23 pm | ||
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