pt 6320+: anyone ever tried it?

daveb · Post by **daveb** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:00 pm

as far as i can tell, this peak is mislabeled with the wrong elevation (6230+' instead of 6320+') in the california mountain atlas: http://peaklist.org/CAmtnatlas/tables/g ... baden.html

and bob burd's nice page's give a third elevation: http://www.snwburd.com/dayhikes/peak/6698

you can get nice views from the Jarvis Memorial, and from the PCT near the Williamson turn-off.

it appears to be near Christopher Brennen's Bear Canyon drop-in point.

mattmaxon · Post by **mattmaxon** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:34 am

If I remember correctly the brush is quite dense out there

hvydrt · Post by **hvydrt** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:13 am

Looks like 6320 to me. Must be a typo on that web site.

Post by **HikeUp** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:27 am

Here's what it looked like from Kratka Ridge summit in 2011...

Post by **Taco** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 9:03 am

Oh those ones? Heheh. I've thought of it. You'd have the place to yourself, for sure. Nice and quiet. Good peaks to spend a night on.

daveb · Post by **daveb** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:02 pm

Turns out, Peter Doggett posted a writeup in the Jan-Feb 2008 Lookout (newsletter of HPS). Here's the meat of it, since it is not online:

We parked across the street from the Buckhorn Campground exit and proceeded uphill to the low saddle between Mt Waterman and Kratka Ridge, about 1/4 mile from our cars. From this saddle we could see [6320+'] less than a mile away and about 400' below us. We hiked down the main canyon to the top of a dry waterfall at about 5800' elevation. We avoided the loose and un-sure rocks by climbing up about 100' on left, before descending back into the main canyon to a point just below our dry waterfall. The entire hike was only 4 miles, but we had about 3000' of gain.

Part of the route went over smooth, slippery rock and through dense, thick brush. Our hike took us a total of 6 hours. The canyon was almost completely dry; however, during most of the year the canyon would be wet and hiking here could be hazardous.

Post by **HikeUp** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 8:00 pm

daveb wrote: ↑
We parked across the street from the Buckhorn Campground exit and proceeded uphill to the low saddle between Mt Waterman and Kratka Ridge, about 1/4 mile from our cars. From this saddle we could see [6320+'] less than a mile away and about 400' below us. We hiked down the main canyon to the top of a dry waterfall at about 5800' elevation. We avoided the loose and un-sure rocks by climbing up about 100' on left, before descending back into the main canyon to a point just below our dry waterfall. The entire hike was only 4 miles, but we had about 3000' of gain.

Part of the route went over smooth, slippery rock and through dense, thick brush. Our hike took us a total of 6 hours. The canyon was almost completely dry; however, during most of the year the canyon would be wet and hiking here could be hazardous.

They took the obvious route if I were to try it. So did they make it to 6320+ or just stop when they got to the bottom of the dryfall@ 5800-? If they made it, was there any description of the route from the bottom of the dryfall up to the peak?

daveb · Post by **daveb** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 8:33 pm

They made it, but provided no further route info.

Post by **HikeUp** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:16 pm

Cool, thanks!

AW~ · Post by **AW~** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:13 pm

Some pictures of the gully down to this peak (from the internet)....

http://halssota.wordpress.com/2014/08/1 ... gust-2014/