Mar 11, 2019 — Follow a very old mining roadbed that in some parts has been reclaimed by nature. It leads up and over a hump, where a social trail leads past an interesting mining cave with a couple of artifacts to the saddle of Riverside Mountains High Point and the Riverside Mountains - Middle Peak. There's a peak farther south called "Riverside Benchmark", but it's not the high point. This route takes you to the high point, also knows as Riverside 2 Benchmark (??). A Class 2 route takes you from the saddle to the ridge leading to the summit. I decided to bag the Middle Peak as well to the south, which had some fun scrambling on solid rock, and gave better views of the Riverside Mountains than the high point.
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