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Apr 26, 2020 — Chokecherry Mountain was a much more heavily-forested peak than I expected it would be, but that's likely because I'm still new to the central Nevada ranges, and also coming off a long-term desert kick. Overall this peak is nothing particularly wonderful, but it does have some redeeming qualities.
I started at a spur road, deciding to just walk it since it got quite rough a quarter mile or so after anyway, following it to the end. Better vehicles can knock off about a mile round trip. The road was heavily degraded and passed an old mining shack ruin. Shortly after the ruin, a drainage continues up the canyon, but it's a bit brushy. I recommend hopping a small ridge just north of the shack and locating a wider drainage with (during my visit) flowing water and heavy horse trails. I know they're horse trails because I saw about a half dozen wild horses and one looked a little too aggressively for my taste.
After following these heavy horse trails for a bit and passing sections of exposed rock within the drainage, I got to a junction and took a left, now heading north to a saddle. The trails disappeared here, so I dropped north from the saddle and side-hilled into a steep drainage coming down from Chokecherry Mountain. Overall it was a straightforward ascent, the occasional rock-hop or slight detour around some brush, but I mostly stuck within the base of the drainage or just left of it. A couple hundred feet from the ridgeline, I noted a social trail (or maybe it was just a heavily-eroded slope from normal erosion?) and left the drainage to ascend this steep and somewhat unpleasant slope to make it to the ridge. Poor route-finding can result in scree or loose rock, but I'd give this section low Class 2.
Once on the ridge, I continued north, weaving my way around small trees and minor rock outcroppings. A small saddle along the ridge added some additional vertical gain and a Class 2 section, adn the summit was too forested to see any views.
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