"After visiting Gold Mountain, I was determined to complete a “Gold & Silver” day. Silver Peak was available to me in the afternoon. We are often spoiled with hikes that have manicured and maintained trails. This is not one of them. This time around, I seem to have found the more popular route to the summit, which involves scrambling up gullies to reach the summit road. It was much quicker coming down than it was going up." — MikeTeeples • Sep 16, 2023

"In preparation for the climb, I looked at previous climbers notes. All of which detail inconsistencies in getting to the top (evidently it isn't a well manicured route?). I also looked at detailed hiking directions provided by the HPS, which I read over and over again and still left me scratching my head. Eventually, I had to rely upon myself and my instincts to react accordingly when on the scene. Aside from that, I hoped that whatever decisions I made would work out. I started out by parking on the side of Highway 18 next to the sign for Forest Road "3N62". I walked Forest Road 3N62 for 0.32 miles to where the road bends sharply to the left. I followed the left bend toward the peak. It became an overgrown and faint at times as it dipped through drainage areas. The old road eventually reformed and climbed out of the creek channels and headed east and parallel to Silver Peak. At a bend in the old road, it crosses a gully after about a mile from the previous 0.32 road bend. I noticed a rock duck positioned at the beginning of the gully (this was what I was hoping for, because I was heading in an easterly route which looked like I was going to go right past the peak a..." — MikeTeeples • Jul 25, 2020

"I started out this lovely and challenging day on 3N62 off Hwy 18; 3N62 is at mile marker 62.00 with a small sign indicating 3N62. It is next to a grove of pinyon pines. I started the day following the dirt road for a while, and didn't see any evidence of a way to start the HPS hiking route (the "cable" scramble route), so I eventually left the dirt road, went down a gully to a canyon bottom apparently a bit east of the HPS route, and started up a gully nearly due south of the peak. I scrambled that gully, at times class 2, and met an old abandoned road bed, and followed it east to see where it could lead. It petered out at a very precarious ledge which would mean a class 3 climb, so I turned back down the road bed and found a slope near a gully, again almost due south of the summit but going slightly northeast to a shelf below the summit. I started up the very loose scree, and it was a tough haul! I then made a diagonal move to the nearest gully (very close by) hoping the soil would have better hold. It did a little! I scrambled up the 40-45 degree gully, class 2, with some deadfall to circumnavigate, and some very loose areas of decomposed granite to the top of said gully,..." — brianpowell • Jan 27, 2019