"12.8.18. The Guardian & Ram Skull Peaks. Solo...21 miles, 3,800’ gain in 7:20 hr. With inversion cloud! Today I bagged one of the most remote and hard to get to Peaks in our area. It’s deadly hot most of the year and when it’s cooler the days are short so you have to be very fit and run the 17 miles to and from the approach to get it done in the daylight hours. It has a 2 mile steep & rocky monster ridge (4 miles out and back) to get to both peaks. I’m glad I was in the clouds going up because if I saw it, I might have cowered away in horror. I stood high above the Lake Mead Narrows. The views were spectacular. I can’t believe this wild place is near home. Today was one of the hardest, fastest, rewarding, beautiful mountaineering experiences of my life. I’m so proud of myself and I blew my own mind. I flew. Thank you Harlan for the beta and for taking me out here last weekend. He has turned me into a peakbagging champion and I can’t believe I can do these things now. " — paula.raimondi • Dec 8, 2018

"Parked on Northshore Road and hiked a loooong way down through Pinto Valley to Boulder Wash, before heading up the gully to the saddle between Ram Skull Peak & Boulder Peak. From the saddle, I headed up the loose slope to Ram Skull Peak, then traversed over to Guardian Peak. I returned the same way, taking a slightly different way back to the saddle, then followed the ridges up to Boulder Peak. Hiked down the NE Ridge of Boulder Peak back to Boulder Wash, then returned the way we came. 19 miles in all. We saw a Bald Eagle, a Turkey Vulture, 5 bighorn sheep and 3 bighorn skulls along the way!" — Kevin • Feb 28, 2015