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| wingding | Re: Up the ridge down the gully | |
| I saw entries from the 60's in the register. There are so many ways to do Nopah - a very nice desert peak. | |
| Posted Feb 23, 2007 7:17 pm | ||
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| MoapaPk | Re: Up the ridge down the gully | |
| Looks like you had a great trip. There was something about the sheer isolation of the peak that fascinated me -- the register went back quite a ways. | |
| Posted Feb 22, 2007 4:17 am | ||
| wingding | Up the ridge down the gully  Date Climbed: Feb 17, 2007 | |
| Up the long ridge and then down the shorter but trickier gullies and steep ridges (not the standard route). Here are pictures from my hike: Pictures of Nopah | |
| Posted Feb 20, 2007 3:49 am | ||
| MoapaPk | Nopah from SE Date Climbed: Mar 26, 2006 | |
| We took a variation on the route described by Gary Craig in DPS 2001 archives. This was a long route (14.6 miles by GPS) that started off the Old Spanish Trail Highway (paved) SE of the peak. The route travels about 4 miles up a gentle, easily-traveled bajada. Then one cuts west up either a ridge or a wash (details and GPS log available to those who care). Our plan was to go north of the Craig route, then intersect the main N-S ridge between the two peaks (Nopah Peak and Nopah Point), so we could do both if time allowed. It didn't, and we just went to the DPS highpoint (though both compatriots wanted to try, anyway). Apart from some spastic route-finding class 3, the route was class 2, with some precarious talus (on steep slopes perched at the top of cliff bands that were invisible on descent). I was accompanied by The Canadian (eh?) and The Siberian (da?), who were amazingly good-humored. We took about 10 hours, and cruised down the bajada at 3 mph to get to the car before dark. link: Nopah from southeast | |
| Posted Mar 28, 2006 11:57 pm | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: From Chicago Valley Date Climbed: Dec 17, 2005 | |
| With Courtney (below). I agree completely: The headwall and the scrambling up above it was by far the best bit of the day. It might be nice to go back and climb the (reportedly) class 4 west face of Nopah Pk, and loop back via Nopah Pt some time... even if only to have an excuse to go back to Shoshone, so I can eat at the Crowbar Cafe again. Who knew you could find such good food in the middle of nowhere? | |
| Posted Dec 20, 2005 2:53 pm | ||
| cp0915 | Route Climbed: ascent - standard variation; descent - standard Date Climbed: December 17, 2005 | |
| The headwall (and the scrambling just above it) was by far the best part of the day. The upper mountain was socked in, so no real views on the summit. | |
| Posted Dec 20, 2005 1:44 pm | ||
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