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| | Hiking | 10.00 Miles | 8 Hrs 45 Mns | | 1.14 mph |
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| partners | | It doesn't seem appropriate to log this under this hike description since I only used about a 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile of the Inner Basin Trail. It was mostly off trail, through steep, rocky terrain, and through some decently dense brush and burned areas, as well as across talus slopes and one particular slope that was like walking on broken dinner plates, and some nice safe class 3 scramble over boulders along and near the ridge line.
What a hike! I must admit that as this hike day approached, I was losing my enthusiasm for it. I've been on the Peaks so many times, did I really need another hike up there? My various highest 3 summit numbers are many, and I've been on trail and off over various parts of the volcano plenty of times. When sitting at home looking at a weather forecast for winds in the 50s and a high barely near that, did I really want to subject myself to that?
I'm glad I did, because what I must remind myself, is that I almost always did the same few things over and over, and did the same safe terrain, the same summit(s)-though with excellent views- many, many times, and had stopped exploring the Peaks. This was different. In an effort to cut down on the mileage, we went south of Sugarloaf and entered the Inner Basin from the Waterline Road, and after reaching the shelter at 9780', we went off trail and would remain so to the end. We hiked directly up slope from the shelter to Doyle and hung out there for a while (arriving at 1545).
I found the Sierra Club Desert Peaks Section summit registry placed in the tree trunk in 1988 and looked through it a bit. I don't normally sign those things anymore, but after finding my 2 previous entries from 2007, I added another. I read some of the older ones from the 80s and 90s. Some were a little funny. Doyle has great views of the other 3 higher peaks in the state, and they feel much larger from this already pretty high summit. I like Doyle and wish I had come here more, but what can you do? It made for a nice time up.
We left around 1645 making as straight a line to the cars as we could. This meant going along the ridge and then down through spruce and bristlecone, aspen and various burned areas, across a nice meadow, and past the old mines. It was a good outing.
Elevation is a good estimate, given the known summit and starting elevation and then rounding up for some additional gain. Mileage seems like a good estimate. |
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