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2 summits • 10.8 mi • 2,980 ft gain • 7 hr 58 min
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"What a fun day! Left Vegas at 6 AM, on the trail at Hualapai Mountain Park by a little after 8 AM. We did a rather large and circuitous route to bag three peaks in one go. Aspen Peak was first, entirely on trail to the summit. Didn't find a benchmark or a register (this would be a recurring theme throughout the day). From Aspen, we backtracked down the summit trail to the Potato Chip Loop trail and over to the Hayden Peak trails. Our original plan was to walk up the service road for the microwave and cell towers at the top of Hayden, but we took the trail - it wasn't quite as steep. However, the trail did not lead to the summit, so about 400' below the summit we cut off of the trail and over to the service road to ascend to the peak. The service road was steep, steep, steep! Tons of steep switchbacks. We walked all the way up to as close to the peak as we could find, since Hayden was literally bristling with antennae and towers. Once again, no benchmark (that we found), no summit register. From Hayden, our original plan (looking at the topo maps) was to traverse across the ridgeline from Hayden to Hualapai. HA! What topo maps fail to convey are massive cliffs. We didn't bring our r..." — psychikingjes • Apr 27, 2019