class 3 moves in it. Is there another route that is all 2?

Reaching this summit left Mary Sue with only East Ord & Martinez to do before her list finisher. We returned to the cars directly down the canyon to the north. Spaghetti at Rockies Pizzarea in 29 palms, then through Amboy & Essex to the Hole-in-the-Wall Campground. There we joined a group of DPSers to welcome the New Year in on Mountain Standard time so we wouldn't have to stay up til midnight.

Friday Bill Russell led a group consisting of Pat, Doug Mantle, Vi DeGrasso, Bob Hicks, Bob Michael, Duane McRuer and myself, up Granite #1. We had about 7 inches of snow to contend with near the summit and enjoyed seeing a frozen water fall in the NE canyon on the way back down.

I'll leave it for one of them to describe the route. But I would note the following: 1) by going left around the old corral just inside the fence as you start up the canyon you can add .7 miles to the trek to the base of the mountain. Guess how we know! 2) The pinnacle south of the main summit really is about 10 feet lower (not higher as the register said). But it provided some nice 3rd class for most of us to play on.

We had a great time and on the way back to camp discovered that you can buy gas at a bunch of trailers about a mile south of the Essex offramp from I-40.
Granite #2 & Spectre Maps
 
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