Feb 18, 2018 — Starting along the 1000 Steps Trail, look for a not-so-obvious gully with cairns leading steeply up to the B-36 plane crash site. The plane crash has a memorial, and when you're done checking it out, find a use trail leading up toward the Ranger Peak Loop Trail, a short bit away. I was confused here, though. Maps mark Ranger Peak as being the Arial Tramway, but there is a summit register at a higher point along the Ranger Peak Trail. However, this summit register is below a cliff, an obivously higher point. So, what's the actual Ranger Peak? I guess it doesn't matter, but I did a Class 3 scramble to gain the Ranger Peak Ridge and followed this really nice ridge until I found a big cairn at the top of a higher point, which I am going to consider to be Ranger Peak. It turned out that this ridge scramble was unnecessary, as there's a use trail leading back to the register, bringing theis route back to Class 2. Though, this is a great intro Class 3 scramble because it's fairly easy and not in a remote place at all. Anyway, I continued along the Ranger Peak Loop Trail until I got back to the 1000 Steps Trail, and followed this back to my car.
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