3. (Agua Caliente Springs Quadrangle). Only the upper right, two inch square of this map is needed. At the letter 0 in the word Sandstone, leave Sandstone Canyon and proceed to your right up the prominent wash trending westward and traced by a blue drainage line. Proceed to the Whale Peak Quadrangle. 4. (Whale Peak Quadrangle). Upon entering the quadrangle at the letter W in the word Washington printed at the map edge in the lower right corner: a. Immediately gain the ridge exactly by the letter h in the word Wash. b. Follow the ridge to the broad plateau marked as 3313 ft. elevation. c. Cross the broad saddle to the west and follow the shoulder north-west to the broad summit of 4840 ft. elevation north-north-east of the letter S in the word MOUNTAINS. d. Proceed to Peak 5018, descend the west side to the long east-west trending saddle, and then continue to the drainage location exactly between the letters U and N in the word MOUNTAINS (this is north of peak 5024), losing elevation from the saddle and then regaining it to avoid difficult contouring.

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Avoid Peak 5018 by going around it on the south to the spot just above the letter T in the word MOUNTAINS, and then continue to the drainage location exactly between the letters U and N in the word MOUNTAINS. e. Contour just south of the letter 0 in the word MOUNTAINS, cross the flat wide plateau, traverse Peak 5169 and gain Whale Peak. f. Proceed from Whale Peak to the road-head at Petroglypha in Little Blair Valley by usual routes. My route trended westward to the 5000 ft. little summit just within the mile square area identified by the red number 23. Descend the broad slope south-west to the head of a drainage depicted two millimeters north of Summit 4016. Follow the incised drainage which first goes west and then turns south, cross Smuggler Canyon, and follow the long shallow saddle to Petroglyphs. The traverse described is 10 miles as measured on the maps. The total elevation gain is about 4100 ft. A gallon of water and cool weather are advisable. You Hundred Peakers will be interested to know that in April 1972 near the top of Whale Peak a three + ft. diamond ("coon-tail") rattlesnake buzzed me 10 ft. directly ahead and raised his head perhaps 1-1/2 ft. to look at me.

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