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Mar 21, 2020 — Not to be confused with the taller and forested Sheep Mountain north of Las Vegas, this Sheep Mountain is dry, accessible, short, and sweet. Just off I-15, a paved road leads past the tiny town of Jean and past a prison to the west slopes of the peak, where a short desert stroll leads to one of the west ridges. We followed it, passing a few of Class 2 and 3 moves to get over some cliff bands, and we reached a false summit, a small peak just south of Sheep Mountain. A short descent and a pretty ridgeline led us to the last few hundred feet of vertical, where we kept to the left around the peak, entered a small crevasse, and scrambled up to the summit.
We returned via the drainage just north of our ascent ridge. The ridge was much more fun and interesting than our descent descent drainage.
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