4 Peaks in one Weekend

Sunrise at White Mt. Peak trailhead.

Looking back at our parking area/campsite/trailhead for White Mt. Peak.

Barcroft Research Station - 2 miles from trailhead.

First view of White Mountain Peak.

Climbing the long switchbacks. Mt. Barcroft in the background.

White Mountain Peak summit hut.

Research in progress!

Me and my old man on the summit of White Mountain Peak - 14246 ft.

The White Mountain range south of White Mountain Peak.

White Mountain from Mt. Barcroft.

Me on the summit of Mt. Barcroft - 13040 ft.

Mt. Barcroft summit box and register.

The final stretch back to the trailhead.

Bristlecone pine in White Mountains.

Boundary Peak, highest point in Nevada, trailhead marker for Queen's Mine trail.

Wild horses near the trailhead.

Boundary Peak is the highest one in this picture.

Trail Canyon from Queen's Mine trail.

Boundary Peak from the north...just a big pile of loose rocks.

Holga version.

Holga version of the scree pile.

Holga version from the north.

Holga version of my old man climbing the scree pile.

Summit survey marker for Boundary Peak - highest point in Nevada - 13140 ft.

View down the way we came up.

Me on the highest rock on the summit.

My old man.

My old man is that little black speck on top of Boundary Peak. I took this from the top of Montgomery Peak, which is 3/4 mile west of Boundary Peak. This is a crop of the following picture.

Boundary Peak from Montgomery Peak.

Summit register for Montgomery Peak, CA - 13441 ft.

The summit box on top of Montgomery Peak, White Mountain Peak, which we climbed one day earlier, is the highest one way in the back on the left half of the picture.

Boundary Peak from the knife edge ridge between the two peaks...I'm on my way back to Boundary Peak.

Looking back up to Montgomery Peak, where I just came from.

Halfway back to the trailhead from Boundary Peak.

From the dirt road. Boundary is the big gray one on the left, Montgomery is on the right.

Same picture pretty much, but from the highway pull-out.

We drove out and got to the White Mountain trailhead late at night. We set up camp and went right to sleep. After a big breakfast, we started hiking about 8am. 7 miles and almost 4 hours later, we were on top of White Mountain Peak. On the way back to the truck, I made a one mile detour over to Mt. Barcroft, which is the 13er behind the Barcroft research facility. We met back up and finished the hike together. We drove up the windy dirt road, and I got carsick. We got gas in Bishop, CA and washed the sweat off our faces in a McDonald's bathroom. We got dinner and Carl's Jr. and then drove to the Queen's Mine trailhead of Boundary Peak, NV. Set up camp and went to sleep by about 9pm. Woke up, ate a big breakfast, and hiked about 4 miles and almost 4000 vertical feet to the top of Boundary Peak, the highest point in Nevada. I made the 3/4 mile traverse over to Montgomery Peak. The route was rocky and loose and steep, but fun. Montgomery is a little taller than Boundary. After making it back to the truck, we heated up a foil dinner and ate it on the drive back to Vegas.