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County High Pointing in all 50 states
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Digest #5462
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Yuma County, Arizona by "Annette Oeser"

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Yuma County, Arizona
Sat Feb 4, 2017 9:18 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Annette Oeser"
January 28, 2017
Signal Point
Yuma County, AZ
Ken Oeser and Jon Mann

I was able to drive a Front-Wheel Drive SUV medium clearance vehicle all the way in to the mouth of Ten Ewe Canyon. I got out a couple of times to move some larger rocks out of the way, but didn't really do any scraping on the way in. The route seemed to be packed from multiple users. On the way driving out, I took a wrong fork in the road (a high clearance truck in front of us told us they wouldn't even make it forward), and rather than backing up 100 yards decided to turn around and high-centered the vehicle on rocks. I bellied down on the rocks and started digging the rocks out, working for a big one in the middle, and one of the young men from the truck moved some from the rear, and we had it clear in about 5 minutes, and I was able to get out and back to the 'main' road after some rocking and a little push or two. The main route is not well marked, so what seemed obvious on the way in was much less clear on the way out. My mileage showed 7.3 miles from the Palm Canyon Road to the trailhead.

For the hike we started at 10:45 am, and followed a use trail starting at the side of the road. We walked up the creekbed for a while, passing the left fork into Ten Ewe Canyon, and picked up a cairned trail (also a couple of ribbons) heading right at Ten Ewe Mountain, which climbed the center ridge and then around to the right up a narrow gully, the steepest part of the hike, to a saddle. There is a little bit of exposure in one or two places along the gully, but no problems, and the trail is pretty easy to follow. From the saddle the obvious trail descends to the left and then circles back and up another gully (with a frozen waterfall on this day) to a large piece of mountain staring us in the face and Ten Ewe Mountain on our left. The topo indicated we could go around this massif on the left, or up the gully to the right, and we chose the latter since the trail went that direction. Another nice gain up this gully and we could finally see the summit about a quarter mile ahead and to the left a little. As we approached it seemed like it was still a good distance away, when in reality it was only 100 yards in front of us. BM Kofa is easily found, and there are great views to the jagged spires of the Kofa Mountains to one side, and the braided plains to the west stretching north to Quartzite and beyond, and south to Yuma.

I tried water-bottle leveling over to the second bump (passed on the way up to the benchmarked summit) and came up with dead even, with no more water at the front or rear of the water bottle, even though I had just enough to cover a side. I did the short hike up this second summit on the way down. I was very tempted to give a try at Ten Ewe Mountain because it was so close, but I didn't have any route info, and it looked dicey from our vantage. It turns out there are two class 3 ramps in between the blocks seen in from of the mountain from the trail, the easiest on the left side, and another on the right side. From the top of these ramps it is supposed to be class 3 to the summit.

Jon was feeling the aches and pains on the way down due to the steepness, and we met a group of 6 at the saddle whom were heading up higher to camp for the night before summiting the next day. It took us 2 hrs 50 minutes for the hike up, and another 2 hrs 50 minutes for the hike out.

Having done Black Mesa, Browns Peak, and now Signal Point (among others), Jon ranks this one as the toughest in Arizona.

Ken Oeser
Hendersonville, TN
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