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| Kadee | Cougar Spring TH  Date Climbed: May 23, 2008 | |
| Camped at the Cougar Spring TH with a couple cows. The next day we started for the peak and it was pretty crappy weather. 5 minutes into the hike it started snowing, the snow was on and off the whole hike. The clouds came in pretty thick once we were getting close to the summit, which made the route finding a little dificult. We decided to head straight for the summit that was marked on the GPS and I think that route made for a little bit more scrambling than usual. Clouds lifted once we got to the summit and it was beautiful to see something besides clouds. | |
| Posted Nov 10, 2008 3:45 pm | ||
| oldadit | Hot Day Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2002 | |
| Honda ended up a couple miles east of the peak, which made for a longer approach than 4wd. It was over 100 degrees in the valley bottoms this day, and I hid in the limited shade while eating lunch on top. A long drive back to Tucson that night. | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2008 6:25 pm | ||
| MoapaPk | From Elbow Canyon, up S ridge w/ loop Date Climbed: Apr 5, 2008 | |
| We parked the car at 4000' on Elbow Canyon Road (from Mesquite), only to realize (later on) that we could have driven (slowly) up to the pass at 6400'. No matter, we needed the exercise. S ridge is nice, but there is a very nasty catclaw-like plant above 7000'. There are also very thick clumps of manzanita. Follow old roads or cowpaths whenever possible. | |
| Posted Apr 6, 2008 12:25 am | ||
| bc44caesar | Route Climbed: Cougar Spring Date Climbed: 15 May 2005 | |
| Made the hour+ drive to the Cougar Spring Trailhead based on thin information. Headed up the old jeep trail not knowing which peak was Mt. Bangs but assumed it was the large rocky peak to my left. As the trail began to fade I started having doubts, which only increased when I started scrambling over boulder after boulder. At length I reached the summit where a marker read "Hancock Peak" which made me think I screwed up. I headed north along the jeep trail where I had left it earlier and reached the top of the unnamed peak to the north thinking that was it, but was sorely disappointed when I couldn't find any marker other than a big pile of white rocks. I learned the truth when I got back home and looked at my TOPO software. A pretty cool, remote peak if you're looking for some out-of-the-way adventure!! | |
| Posted May 18, 2005 12:43 am | ||
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