Sierra Challenge Day 6 - Donkey Peak
22 participants joined today's outing to the unofficially named Donkey Peak. All participants made it to Donkey Peak as marked on LoJ. All except a few continued a short distance along the ridge towards the unofficially named Baboon Peak, which contained an Andy Smatko, Bill Schuler and Barbara Lilley register. Most of the participants continued on towards Sunset Peak, which apparently had a spicy class 4 summit block.

I had a different idea. I backtracked with a few participants towards Point 11818 at the north end of the ridge. We had some suspicions that this was the real Donkey Peak as named by Andy Smatko. While Bob Burd claims that the LoJ summit is 100% Donkey Peak, those who climbed Point 11818 feel otherwise for several reasons. Point 11818:
-more closely matches the Andy Smatko route description.
-has more prominence than the LoJ Donkey Peak
-is closer to Donkey Lake
-is clearly visible from the lower reaches of the Lake Sabrina basin
-has a remarkable summit block.

Further investigation is needed. Since I drew the map (doh!), everyone who completed either possible Donkey Peak will receive credit towards the challenge peak.