Nippletop - 4.13.2016
A photo of the GPS track for our trip to Nippletop... 3 miles roundtrip, gaining 1723 feet of elevation... park in a pull-out on the side of Hwy 9... approximately 1.5 to 2 miles east of the small tunnel.
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The easiest way to get on route is to walk back down Hwy 9 toward the small tunnel and leave the road directly across the road from Point 6240+ (aka South Ariel Peak).
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Shortly after leaving Hwy 9 look for the easiest slickrock to start your ascent... here it is toward the right.
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BarbE and tomman on the slickrock on the south side of Hwy 9... South Ariel Peak (aka Point 6240+) is directly behind them.
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On slickrock... the false summit is directly above them... with the Nippletop summit just to the right of them further back from the false summit.
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A pano shot looking north across Hwy 9 as we gain elevation... South Ariel Peak is in the center of the photo.
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The slickrock becomes steeper the closer we get to the false summit.
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We have found a break in the slickrock with some vegetation growing... this will help us big time to reach the false summit.
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Nearing the false summit of Nippletop... looking west toward The West Temple and The East Temple both of which have a red hat on top... Twin Brothers on the far right.
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The northern terminus of Crazy Quilt Mesa on the right.
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Almost on the false summit of Nippletop.
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tomman on the false summit of Nippletop.... part of the very broad and flatish Cable Mountain on the left.
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From the false summit we can see that there is plenty of work left to reach the Nippletop summit.
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A pano shot from the false summit... looking west and north.
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Lets go get the summit.
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tomman nearing the steep cliffy section that will get us up to the summit.
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Looking back at the false summit as we near the cliffy section that will get us up to the summit.
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Looking west... the two tallest ones with the red hats are The West Temple and The East Temple.
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Heading up the cliffy section of Nippletop and looking east to Crazy Quilt Mesa.
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Are we having fun yet... Class 3 now.
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I'm on the summit... watching tomman start the last few moves to the top.
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One more giant leap for mankind.
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Tada... tomman on the summit (6715') of Nippletop.
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A selfie on the Nippletop summit.
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Crazy Quilt Mesa from Nippletop.
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Looking south to Parunuweap Canyon running left to right across the center of the photo... it holds the east fork of the Virgin River.
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A stunning view from this pano shot... looking west and north from the Nippletop summit.
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The route we will follow back to the false summit.
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tomman descends from the Nippletop summit.
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Our route back to the false summit.
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