Spirit Mountain

H.W. Stockman
Sunday January 04, 2004

Click on any small image to see a larger picture. (Cliquez sur une petite image pour voir la grande image correspondante.) Order is essentially chronological. Even the large images here are reduced to ~1/5 the original # of pixels.

GPS Trace

To get to Spirit Mountain, take I-95 ~50 miles south from Boulder City, past Searchlight and Cal-Nev-Ari. Turn left (east) at the sign for Christmas Tree Pass, and follow the good gravel road for six miles east. Park your car at the turnoff on the north side of the "main" gravel road.

View north from 1^st high point.		View SW at 1^st "pass."
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	Looking NNE from same pass.	View NNW near pass.
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		View NW.
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		Granite spires, view NE near ridgeline.
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Looking E from sign-in book on east (lower) peak, toward Lake Mohave.	View SW from east peak. Luba on right.	Luba and Nick head down and W to main peak.
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Which way is up?	View S from main peak.	View S from promontory S of main peak.
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Looking back E as a lone hiker (who?) crosses from east peak.	View NNW across main peak. Charleston Peak (snow-covered) is visible in left background.	View N across main peak. Charleston Peak is visible in left background, Lake Mohave is visible at right.
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Looking NE to Lake Mohave. Two more (who?) cross the basin between the peaks.	NNW to main peak; more folks arrive.	…more folks arrive…
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My standard cerebellum check; yep, some of it is still there.	…still more!
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…More!	Valerie critiques the grammar in the log book.	Luba and Ali head down past a natural arch. View E near top.
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View E.	Looking SW; heading down into the abyss.	View S, heading down.
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…down,	…down…	View back NW.
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…down, view SW…		Back at the pass, view N over Ali, Luba, Nick.
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Looking NW at Charleston Peak.	View N from the pass. Who's that in the lower distance?	Back at the last highpoint. view NNE.
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