Spectre Pt (Coxcomb Mtns), DPS 4.9, DeLorme p99, Wild p25. Road closed from SR-62.
Last Chance Mtn, DPS 2.1, DeLorme (in Nor. Cal book), Wild p"N". Road closed .9 mi N of Crankshaft Junction, 2.8 ml short of Last Chance Spring. Possible routes from SW should be explored.
Turtle Mtn, DPS 3.14, DeLorme p100, Wild p117,118. Road will be closed at sec 34/35 boundary, UTM 072884, about 3.3 mi short of present roadhead. Should explore route from west, via Johnson's We 11.
Black Butte, DPS 4.7, DeLorme p109, Wild p18,19. Road will be closed 1.0 mi. N of Bradshaw Trail. Alternate from Corn Spring is an unattractive 12 mi., 4000' gain.
Old Woman Mtn, DPS 3.10, DeLorme 85,86, Wild p74. Road will be closed about 2 mt short of Florence Mine. Possible alternate up Carbonate Gulch from the SW could be 2200', 3 ml if road is O.K.
Pahrump Pt, DPS 2.20, DeLorme p43, Wild p68. Road will be closed at SR 178.
Granite Mtn #1, DPS 3.8, DeLorme p84,85, Wild p36. Road will be closed just above 4000' in Cottonwood Wash.
Dry Mtn, DPS 2.3, DeLorme 28, Wild 96. Closure of the Saline Corridor will change the western approach from 5400', 10 miles, to 25 mi., 6900', leaving the eastern approach, 13 ml, 5600' from Racetrack Road, as the shortest route.
Mopah Pt, DPS 3.15, DeLorme p101, Wild p117. Road will be closed .8 mi short of present roadhead.
Chuckwalla Mtn, DPS 4.8, DeLorme p118, Wild p19. Road will be closed at the Bradshaw Trail. Alternate from N is longer.
New York Mtn, DPS 3.4, DeLorme p71, Wild p66. Live Oak Canyon will be closed at about 5500'. Caruthers Canyon will be preferred route and is unaffected.
Stepladder Mtn, DPS 3.12, DeLorme p86, Wild p113. Roads north from Turtle Mtn Road will be closed at Turtle Mtn Road. Current route will change from 7 mi, 1200' to 20 ml, 1500'. An alternate route from the NE appears probably viable: W from U.S. 95 on graded pipeline road, then S on the same track that we now take N from Turtle Mtn Road. Parking at about UTM 016315, the new route would be 9 mi, 1100'. This has not been explored, but flat terrain gives us a high degree of confidence that this will work! Other alternate routes are possible from the NW.
Palen Mtn, DPS 4.11, DeLorme p110, Wild p80. Road from W will be blocked at E side of N-S dirt road some 11 ml W of peak, changing W approach from 5 ml, 2300' to 22 mi, 3300. Approach from E, 2700', 6 ml, is unaffected & will be the only viable route.
Orocopia Mtn, DPS 4.6, DeLorme p108, Wild p76. All route from S will be closed within a mile of Bradshaw Trail. Road from N will be closed .6 ml short of present parking spot.
Pyramid Pk, DPS 2.15, DeLorme p42, Wild p"C". Road will be closed at SR 190. Nopah Range, DPS 2.21, DeLorme p43,44, Wild p68. Roads E of N/S road through Twelvemile Springs closed, closing "Campy shortcut" approach from SW.
Credits: Gene Olsen obtained the entire Wilderness Study Area map set, then drew in all the wilderness boundaries, then colored the wildernesses on a copy of the DeLorme map atlas. He loaned Dale Van Dalsem the map set and marked up DeLorme atlas. Dale then reviewed all pertinent maps and USGS topos and the DPS Road & Peak Guide and compiled the analysis above. This represents several man-days of work by Gene and a couple of man-days of work by Dale. Dale Van Dalsem is solely responsible for the above. -Dale, 1-10-90.
