"A classic route, was a lot of fun routefinding in the last 600 vert from the saddle. Easy crack to climbers right of the dry waterfall crux made it an easy class 3 route. Hardest part was avoiding getting pricked by all the prickly pears and other insanely sharp desert plants. I mean, does everything really need to be this sharp?" — scott • Apr 10, 2024

"very easy summit. 300 ft vertical. Post-breakfast hike! Saw snoopy rock and aerial views of sedona from top. Right next to capital butte, making me want to do it. 2/5 Sedona 5 Peak Challenge. " — summit • Apr 8, 2024

"This was a tough run with the cold, dry air on elevation. I started at the North Trailhead and ran to the top of the tru Mt Wilson peak, which has no trail on the last section, but an easy bushwhack. From there I ran to the Sedona lookout and ran over to the other " Mt Wilson" peak and back down to the West Trail." — nandorszotak • Nov 3, 2023

"Took the rest of the family to the Stupa, then the 4 and 6 year olds were game to continue walking with me. We ended up summiting Little Sugarloaf which I didn't expect them to have energy for. They did great with the steep climb." — alarobric • Mar 19, 2023

"What do you do when you get to the trailhead and realize that you left your hiking boots back at the hotel? The answer is: you do the hike in your Uggs. That's right. I'm fUgging awesome ;) Literally no one has an excuse if I could do this whole hike, including the "agonizing bushwhack to the true summit" (to paraphrase Courtney Purcell in his book, and also echo a very accurate description of finding the true summit/Bear Mountain North) in snow and ice no less. In my 3-year-old much-loved and very worn Ugg boots. With ribbons up the back, because I'm classy and stylish and I like them like that. Anyway! Bear Mountain is a good trail hike that will really work your stair-stepping muscles; tons of stair-step moves and lots of steep slab. The trail is easy to follow, and when it goes through sandstone sections it is still marked by white blazes/elongated hexagons (white rupees [the Legend of Zelda kind]?) that have been stenciled onto the rocks. Very straightforward, a good hike, some relatively flat or shallow incline sections interspersed with steep climbs. All class I-II, I don't think there was a single class III move. The trailhead did fill up by the time we came back down (and ..." — psychikingjes • Dec 18, 2021