Oct 26, 2018 — On your way to the trailhead, you'll get to a public works gated off square. Turn left here, at 32.721767,-114.2790236, avoiding the "no trespassing" signs.
Starting from the parking area, head down on the Jeep road and through a wash until you get to the official Muggins Wilderness Trailhead, complete with a billboard. This is where a five mile loop circles around Muggins Peak, but I was more interested in finding a route up the peak itself. Muggins Peak looks pretty daunting from here, but it's not too bad. Continue up the wash, and head right when it splits. When you have the gully between the two Muggins Peak peaklets (east and west), beeline to that gully and begins scrambling. The first obstacle is a fun Class 3 dryfall, followed by a bunch of loose Class 2 for a while until you reach a grotto just beneath the saddle. Maybe there's an easier way up to the saddle (or rather, less loose and scary), but my Class 3+ scramble brought me there and I didn't see any obvious easier ways up.
From the saddle, I went to Muggins Peak East first. Keep working up the south side, passing one particularly scary move due to the nature of this awful rotten rock. After this summit, the West peak went more easily. It's sketchy to go directly up the ridge, so head southwest beneath the peak and then zigzag back up to the ridge, passing a couple of fun moves on fairly solid rock, and a small knife-edge ridge on to gain the summit. This would be a really fun, quick outing if not for the mostly treacherous, breakable rock.
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