Valerie Norton<p>For <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/ThrowbackThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThrowbackThursday</span></a>: <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 2017, I made a start in the faint dawn light at the end of Templin Highway to bag the Lower Peaks Committee (<a href="https://mountains.social/tags/SierraClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SierraClub</span></a>) listed Redrock Mountain. They list the benchmark, anyway. The actual peak was my goal and is a little further along the ridge. I skipped looking for any cursed gold mines the area is known for and went for the more reliable reward of beauty. The narrows of Fish Canyon, a diversion into the canyons past Pianobox when I missed a turn, then high into a clearing sky where the last wild California condor soared before all were captured. Once headed down again, I took a different route, a repeat of a stunning canyon I had hiked before, but this time with enough light to see it.</p><p>It was a wonderful day and the whole story is here: <a href="https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2017/03/redrock-mountain.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">valhikes.blogspot.com/2017/03/</span><span class="invisible">redrock-mountain.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mountains.social/tags/hiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hiking</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/dayhike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dayhike</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/canyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canyon</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/peak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peak</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/peakbagging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peakbagging</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/TbT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TbT</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a></p>