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This guide showcases 130 peak hikes/climbs selected among 41 mountain ranges in California's Mojave Desert.
List of contents
Foreword
About This Book
1. Geography and Climate
- Boundary
- Topography
- Legacy
- Conservancy
- Human Developments
- Climate
2. Natural History
3. Cultural History
- Native American History
- Mining History
4. Safety Tips, Regulations, and Ethics
- Backcountry Driving
- Hiking and Climbing Tips
- Desert Hazards
- Regulations
- Wilderness Ethics
5. Northern Mojave Desert
- Nopah Range
- Kingston Range and Avawatz Mountains
- Kingston Peak
- Avawatz Peak
- Grapevine Mountains
- Mount Palmer
- Thimble Peak
- Death Valley Buttes
- Funeral Mountains
- Chloride Cliff
- Nevares Peak
- Pyramid Peak
- Black Mountains
- Red Cathedral
- Mount Perry
- Coffin Peak
- Ashford Peak
- Desert Hound Peak
- Last Chance Range
- Last Chance Mountain
- Lead Peak
- Ubehebe Peak
- Cottonwood Mountains
- Tin Mountain
- White Top Mountain
- Leaning Rock
- Lost Burro Peak
- Hunter Mountain
- Towne Peak
- Panamint Mountains
- Wildrose Peak
- Telescope Peak
- Sentinel Peak
- Slims Peak
- Porter Peak
- Striped Butte
- Needle Peak
- Owlshead Mountains
- Con Peak
- Spring Peak
- Owl Peak
6. Eastern Mojave Desert
- Mountains and Piute Range
- Woods Mountains and Hackberry Mountain
- Woods Mountain
- Hackberry Mountain and Guitar Mountain
- New York Mountains
- Castle Peaks
- New York Peak
- Pinto Mountain
- Mid Hills
- Eagle Rocks
- Table Mountain
- Providence Mountains
- Barber Peak
- Fountain Peak
- Providence Peak
- Granite Mountains
- Silver Peak
- Granite Mountain
- Clark Mountain Range
- Alaska Hill
- Clark Mountain
- Ivanpah Mountains
- Kokoweef Peak
- Striped Mountain
- Kessler Peak
- Cima Dome
- Teutonia Peak
- Cima Dome
- Mount Hephestus
- Cowhole Mountains
- Little Cowhole Mountain
- Cowhole Mountain
- Sacramento Mountains and Chemehuevi Mountains
- Eagle Peak
- Chemehuevi Peak
- Stepladder and Old Woman Mountains
- Stepladder Mountain
- Old Woman Mountain
- Old Woman Statue
- Marble Mountains
- Cady Mountains
7. Southern Mojave Desert
- Ord Mountains
- West Ord Mountain
- East Ord Mountain
- San Bernardino Mountains
- Bighorn Mountain
- Chaparrosa Peak
- Little San Bernardino Mountains
- Warren Peak
- Eureka Peak
- Quail Mountain
- Inspiration Peak
- Ryan Mountain
- Lost Horse Mountain
- Wonderland of Rocks
- Keys Peak
- Queen Mountain
- Joshua Mountain
- Hexie Mountains
- Malapai Hill
- Lela Peak
- Monument Mountain
- Pinto Mountains
- Twentynine Palms Mountain
- Pinto Mountain
- Sheep Hole Mountains
- Sheep Hole Mountain
- Stifle Peak
8. Western Mojave Desert
- Coso Range
- Silver Mountain
- Jurassic Peak and Scattered Bone Peak
- Argus Range
- Ophir Mountain and Darwin Peak
- Zinc Hill
- Lookout Mountain
- Mine Peak
- Slate Range
- Slate Point and Empasse Peak
- Searles Peak
- El Paso Mountains
- El Paso Peaks
- Black Mountain
- Lava Mountains and Fremont Peak Range
- Klinker Mountain
- Red Mountain
- Fremont Peak
Bibliography
Summary Table of Climbs
Index
About the author
Michel Digonnet is a professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He has spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area and has dedicated a good fraction of his spare time to exploring the deserts of California and the Southwest. He has authored three outdoors books on the California Desert. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
Summary
Experience the Best Mountain Hikes of California’s Mojave Desert
With a total protected area of 9.1 million acres, the Mojave Desert is one of the best-preserved ecosystems in the United States and a formidable playground for hiking, mountaineering, and backpacking. Mojave Desert Peaks describes 130 peak climbs selected among 41 mountain ranges to celebrate this region’s remarkable geological, botanical, and historical diversity, and its breathtaking landscapes.
The hikes range from easy to strenuous and appeal to both beginners and seasoned hikers. Each description emphasizes the area’s scenic beauty and provides information on road access, navigational directions, distances and elevations to key waypoints, and natural and human history. This guidebook also gives valuable tips on desert hiking. Illustrated with 100 computer-generated topographic maps, five general maps for regional orientation, and 160 photographs, it covers Death Valley National Park, Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave National Preserve, Mojave Trails National Monument, Castle Mountains National Monument, and 12 designated wilderness areas.
