Mojave Desert Peaks: Hiking the Crown of the California Desert

Foreword

About This Book

1. Geography and Climate

• Boundary
• Topography
• Legacy
• Conservancy
• Human Developments
• Climate

2. Natural History

• Geology
• Botany
• Wildlife

3. Cultural History

• Native American History
• Mining History

4. Safety Tips, Regulations, and Ethics

• Backcountry Driving
• Hiking and Climbing Tips
• Desert Hazards
• Regulations
• Wilderness Ethics

5. Northern Mojave Desert

• Nopah Range
• Pahrump Peak
• Noon Peak
• Kingston Range and Avawatz Mountains
• Kingston Peak
• Avawatz Peak
• Grapevine Mountains
• Mount Palmer
• Thimble Peak
• Death Valley Buttes
• Funeral Mountains
• Chloride Cliff
• Nevares Peak
• Pyramid Peak
• Black Mountains
• Red Cathedral
• Mount Perry
• Coffin Peak
• Ashford Peak
• Desert Hound Peak
• Last Chance Range
• Last Chance Mountain
• Lead Peak
• Ubehebe Peak
• Cottonwood Mountains
• Tin Mountain
• White Top Mountain
• Leaning Rock
• Lost Burro Peak
• Hunter Mountain
• Towne Peak
• Panamint Mountains
• Wildrose Peak
• Telescope Peak
• Sentinel Peak
• Slims Peak
• Porter Peak
• Striped Butte
• Needle Peak
• Owlshead Mountains
• Con Peak
• Spring Peak
• Owl Peak

6. Eastern Mojave Desert


• Mountains and Piute Range
• Hart Peak
• Ute Peak
• Woods Mountains and Hackberry Mountain
• Woods Mountain
• Hackberry Mountain and Guitar Mountain
• New York Mountains
• Castle Peaks
• New York Peak
• Pinto Mountain
• Mid Hills
• Eagle Rocks
• Table Mountain
• Providence Mountains
• Barber Peak
• Fountain Peak
• Providence Peak
• Granite Mountains
• Silver Peak
• Granite Mountain
• Clark Mountain Range
• Alaska Hill
• Clark Mountain
• Ivanpah Mountains
• Kokoweef Peak
• Striped Mountain
• Kessler Peak
• Cima Dome
• Teutonia Peak
• Cima Dome
• Mount Hephestus
• Cowhole Mountains
• Little Cowhole Mountain
• Cowhole Mountain
• Sacramento Mountains and Chemehuevi Mountains
• Eagle Peak
• Chemehuevi Peak
• Stepladder and Old Woman Mountains
• Stepladder Mountain
• Old Woman Mountain
• Old Woman Statue
• Marble Mountains
• Castle Peak
• Marble Peak
• Cady Mountains
• Cady Peak
• Sleeping Beauty

7. Southern Mojave Desert


• Ord Mountains
• West Ord Mountain
• East Ord Mountain
• San Bernardino Mountains
• Bighorn Mountain
• Chaparrosa Peak
• Little San Bernardino Mountains
• Warren Peak
• Eureka Peak
• Quail Mountain
• Inspiration Peak
• Ryan Mountain
• Lost Horse Mountain
• Wonderland of Rocks
• Keys Peak
• Queen Mountain
• Joshua Mountain
• Hexie Mountains
• Malapai Hill
• Lela Peak
• Monument Mountain
• Pinto Mountains
• Twentynine Palms Mountain
• Pinto Mountain
• Sheep Hole Mountains
• Sheep Hole Mountain
• Stifle Peak

8. Western Mojave Desert


• Coso Range
• Silver Mountain
• Jurassic Peak and Scattered Bone Peak
• Argus Range
• Ophir Mountain and Darwin Peak
• Zinc Hill
• Lookout Mountain
• Mine Peak
• Slate Range
• Slate Point and Empasse Peak
• Searles Peak
• El Paso Mountains
• El Paso Peaks
• Black Mountain
• Lava Mountains and Fremont Peak Range
• Klinker Mountain
• Red Mountain
• Fremont Peak

Bibliography

Summary Table of Climbs

Index

Michel Digonnetis a professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He has spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area and has dedicated a good fraction of his spare time to exploring the deserts of California and the Southwest. He has authored three outdoors books on the California Desert. He lives in Palo Alto, California.