"Ken flew Amber & I into Cottonwood for the weekend to hike with Jessica. We picked Bear Mountain. The hike was beautiful, but cold. Once at the end of the trail, we made the agonizing bushwhack to the true summit, Bear Mountain North. We returned roughly the same way." — Kevin • Dec 18, 2021

"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

"A pleasant hike to lower South Peak of Bear Mountain. The true summit (North Peak) is apparently a viewless one-mile thorny bushwhack that no one is inspired to endure for extra 30 feet of elevation gain. Close enough for me." — Taras • Apr 10, 2019

"Day hike in Sedona to the top of Bear mountain. The psychological challenge of the several false summits were almost as tough as the climb itself. A great hike - the views are spectacular! " — lawrencebaker • Sep 11, 2016