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Apr 19, 2020 — I obviously intitially wanted to do Stud Mountain simply because of its name, but it ended up being a fun little scramble with an approach far away from pretty much anything else. Google navigated me well to this point: 32.87815, -114.74941 and then I took the left dirt road leading to the trailhead coordinates for this hike, mid-clearance sufficient.
I started southeast up a minor rocky drainage, keeping to the right and ascending on whatever slope felt the least steep, nothing past Class 2. Once on the ridge, Class 2 moves on fun and mostly solid rock brought me most of the way along the crest to a false summit just north of the true summit of Stud Mountain. A bit more mellow terrain continued to the top, a single Class 2+ move along the way.
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