Trip report
Jul 15, 2020 — Mummy Mountain is a peak that when viewed from NV-95 appears like a mummy laying down. This route summits the minor high point known as Mummy's Nose. A loop to the Mummy Mountain high point can be found here, while this route is a little more obscure and less pleasant. I started from a large pull-off and headed through the woods, bee-lining to a notch to the right of Mummy's Nose. I passed over an actively used dirt road (which you can use as an alternative rather than just walking through the woods) and eventually stumbled on cairns. The slope I was asending didn't require any bushwhacking and was straightforward enough, so don't be too concerned if you don't find cairns quickly.
The cairns led to the right of the main drainage onto a well-defined social trail with views of the cliffy Spring Mountains ahead were amazing. The social trail dropped down into the drainage and then gained elevation quickly. Honestly, I took a different route on the way up than I did on the way down. You can either stay in the main drainge, or get out on the left side and ascend the slope. Either way seems to work just fine and I encountered Class 2 sporadically. Eventually I made it up to the aforementioned notch, where heading right (south) would bring me to the even more obscure features of Mummy Mountain, and left (north) would take me to the Mummy's Nose summit.
Along the ridge to Mummy's Nose, the social trail scrambles up a fun, small Class 3 chute. Halfway up this chute, the route leads out of the chute and up to higher ground, while continuing within the chute results in a Class 4 move. The summit views toward Mummy Mountain were really nice, as were the peaks to the north within the Spring Mountains.