North past Belmont, NV to the Pine Creek trailhead. I retraced the route I day hiked last year up to the 9,200 ft level, this time with a backpack to save the second hump for the next day.
I thought this marker was for the high spring on the map (which is long dry in summer). Didn't notice until on the way back, arrows were drawn for South Peak and Middle Peak trails, barely legible in sun faded Sharpie.
I could not see any evidence of the South Peak trail, just a rock jumble, and a massive wall of elevation. I was not in my game this day, and just discounted doing South Peak outright after seeing the environment first hand.
I had been waiting out two weeks of t-storm (and flash flood warning) forecasts to finally make this trek here. This was the first sunny forecast for 82 in the valley and 60s up on the mountain, but it felt like 82 by 9 a.m. this day.
Eventually enough cairns led the way and I got up out of that bowl. I'm above that peak to the left, which I thought was South Peak, but is not. It is just a nameless arm of the mountain.
The real South Peak is a wall of scree. Per the map and now looking at this, you bear straight up several hundred feet of scree (similar to my experience on my Boundary Peak hike). I'm just not able to do that anymore.
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