| BIBLIOGRAPHY: North Face of Mt. San Jacinto Dyer, Ruth, "Up Snow Creek to the Cairn on San Jacinto", Desert Magazine, June, 1939. Henderson, Randall, "We Climbed the Falls on San Jacinto", Desert Magazine, January, 1939. Robinson, John, "Southern California's Rugged Mountain", Summit, May, 1961. Sloan, Howard, "Climbing the North Face of Mount San Jacinto", Sierra Club Bulletin, February, 1933. Other short references to the climb are found in the SPS Echo June, 1958; July-August 1959; December 1959. CLIPPER MTN. (4606') CLIPPER RANGE. SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY Harry Melts In January of this year I climbed Clipper Mountain in the Mojave Desert north of US Highway 66. Take the paved road going northwest from Essex toward Kelso. At 8.3 miles (from Essex) turn east end after less than one mile south to Goldhammer Mine. Proceed beyond the mine on a poor road a short distance toward Chuckawalla Spring (See Colton Well 15' topo map). From the mines above Chuckwa11a Spring bike on a direct bearing southwest to Clipper Mountain. The views are superb and wide-ranging. The elevation gain is about 2200 feet of class one, and the round trip is about five miles. This is a rather easy, pleasant hike suitable for a Saturday warm-up. IBEX PEAK (4752'), IBEX RANGE, INYO COUNTY Andy Smatko About 1 to 1-1/4 miles west of Salisbury Pass (east of Death Valley) a fairly good dirt road leads almost due south, gradually rising towards the hills in the immediate distance. Proceed until the road becomes too rough. Ibex Peak lies to the left of the road at about 10 o'clock. Continue hiking along the road to a low saddle. From here two routes can be followed. One can immediately take the sloping ridge to the left (east) and follow it in a crescentic curve, curving southeast, then southwest to the summit. Or one can continue south down from the saddle for about one third of a mile and then turn east up easy and interesting wash and climb directly from the head of this canyon to the summit. It would be interesting to go up one way and come dawn the other. Ibex is higher then nearby Sheephead Mountain. The round trip is about 5-1/2 to 6 miles. Personally I do not feel it is worthy of DPS status. |
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