"I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty nervous about doing this peak. Every trip report I read mentioned this as a difficult peak to summit, and with terminology that is still rather new to me as "Class 2" and "Class 3" I was definitely feeling anxious. My last few trips haven't been that enjoyable to say the least and I was starting to feel that I was doing scrambles that have the potential to cost me my life (Mummy Mountain, I'm looking at you). So as I made my drive up to North Phoenix through I-17, I was feeling pretty discouraged and just about to call it quits to hiking off trails overall. Boy am I super thankful I didn't turn back. Starting off with the parking: if you drive to the I-17, get off on Happy Valley Rd and go West until you hit 51st ave. Take a right and you can go straight ahead to the end of the road next to the canal where you will see signs of "Road Closure". You can park at the end of this road. Do note that you need a State Trust Land Permit to continue from here, which you can easily purchase online. The walk to the mountain isn't anything too exciting. There's a lot of trails that branch out across the dessert. I bumped into multiple hikers walking aroun..." — easotelo1 • Nov 27, 2020

"Took my brother and friend up to south mountain as they had never been in the area. We started at Mormon Trail and were thinking about doing the Mormon Loop. My friend however really wanted to see a good sunset, so given the time I said we should watch the sunset from the top of Two Peaks. So we ended up doing a shorter loop around Hidden Valley Trail and checked out Fat Man's Pass before coming back to Mormon Trail and starting up to Two Peaks. The climb wasn't too tough and there's even a faint trail that people seem to take often to the top of the first peak. After letting my companions take a breather at the top of the first peak, we crossed the saddle to the west onto the second peak where the picture was taken :) " — easotelo1 • Nov 22, 2020

"This wasn't a very enjoyable summit for me. The hardest part was probably finding a parking spot and starting place. I made sure to look up past routes and do my research before doing the climb. But every starting point was either ambiguous or requires parking at a residential area. Personally, I'm not a fan of parking in a residential area so I did some more scouring and found a trip report of parking on the CVS by the base of the mountain (55th ave and Happy Valley Rd) . Sure I guess. The trip report mentioned walking through the neighborhood until reaching the base of the summit, but that didn't really work out for me. I was unable to find any access to the mountain from that particular residential area (the North side of the mountain does have access and it seems that most people climb through there). I went back to the intersection and started walking towards the base of the mountain through the Happy Valley Rd sidewalk. Very quickly I found a dirt road that seems to be used fairly often by both vehicles and bikers. This led me to finally look for a potential route to start my climb. At this point I felt I had wasted a lot of time trying to figure out where to start and wher..." — easotelo1 • Nov 20, 2020

"took the circumference trail eastward up to the ridgeline trail. Once I reached the ridgeline, I realized that there's some scrambling involved off trail to reach the true summit. Fun surprise. " — easotelo1 • Oct 16, 2020

"Took my family out for a summit attempt. Mom and dad made it to the saddle and stopped there to rest and take in the views and take some pictures. My brother and I continued on to the summit while my parents waited. The trail to the summit is very faint but not hard to get lost. Regardless, this last 0.1 mile was extremely rocky and steep. It was a great workout to the top. After resting at the top, my brother and I descended to meet back up with our parents and walk back to the parking lot. This was my parents very first actual hike and they loved it. Overall very fun." — easotelo1 • Oct 9, 2020