I left our track out for our attempt at this guy.īack at the southern side of The Orphan, head north through a boulder-choked gully on The Orphan's west side. We attempted Peak 2395 to the west, but there was certainly no way up without gear. From a notch at the top of the gully, head to the right where two short Class 3 moves in sequence continue to the summit. At the southern side of Peak 2431, a nice wide Class 2 gully leads up to the north side of the summit. To reach this minor summit, a drainage leads northwest, and a Class 2 scramble leads west and up to higher terrain above. Before going for The Orphan, it made sense to take a quick excursion over to Peak 2431. It's popular, but still very pretty.Īfter the two White Domes, we followed the White Domes Trail north along the road, then left the trail and worked our way west to the eastern cliff of The Orphan. I recommend doing the one mile White Domes Trail if you haven't. Both peaklets had nice views of the colorful Valley of Fire State Park below. We continued to West White Dome, with its slightly exposed Class 3 section near the top, where high winds made it more thoughtful than it normally would have been. Starting from the White Domes Trailhead, we first hopped up the single Class 3 squeeze-move to White Dome. I've edited the map significantly to remove the typical GPS jitter you get from going through tight spaces, so use it more as a reference and have fun route-finding on this excursion. Although I don't know how useful the attached map will be since a topo doesn't show the intricacies of these Valley of Fire peaklets, it should hopefully give you an idea. The peaks described below include White Dome, West White Dome, Peak 2431, The Orphan, and Boneyard Peak. I returned a couple of years later to get another minor summit with my friend Sam, but I've slipped this in as if it were part of a cohesive trip report. I've been to this State Park a few times before to do some of the trails, and returned to bag a few peaklets in the White Domes area with Austin, forming the trip report here. I will add fee to my review but it was a park donation.Valley of Fire is a great place to find some interesting scramble routes. We made it to are destination and had a picturesque view the drive there. The drive did take awhile and we felt like we had gotten lost but we really did not care. We did get hungry and grabbed some fish and chips at some local dinner we found when we said let's go down that road and see if they have food. We then ended out on a road that follows lake mead. The map we decided to toss the mapquest print out and go to Hoover damn with the new map we got when we first entered the park! I suggest this ride 100%. We spent a few hours just inside the park. We stopped and climbed and have a ton of pictures. Toyota (or some car brand) was doing a Commercial when we turned one of the corners. You can climb the stairs where they taped a few episodes of star trak. It was so HOT! The fire rock is so neat and changes colors from red to a golden and then white. We went in August and the car temp read 114. Bring water it is not called the "valley of fire" for no reason. WHAT A COOL PLACE! Grab a map when you enter the state park you will need it. If you are in Vegas or surrounding area and planning on going to hoover damn, I have a route for you! My friend and I added Valley of fire to are day trip list when in Vegas.
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