
Starting up along the Wind Cave Trail.

Wind Cave is somewhere on the right in those yellow cliff bands.


The trail is really popular, despite how my photos appear.

The Wind Cave Trail leads to the cliff base and ascends for a bit to the Wind Cave.


The Wind Cave. Not super impressive.

Close-up of the feature.

Continuing past the Wind Cave into "Not Maintained" territory. A pretty obvious social trail leads up the cliff face.

There are probably a few routes you could take because of all the foot traffic eroding the route to Pass Mountains' South Peak.


Pass Mountain South Peak summit looking south.

Pass Mountain South Peak summit looking north toward the traverse.

Close-up of the traverse to Pass Mountain.

A couple of easy scramble moves, marked with white dots.

Looking back toward Pass Mountain South Peak.

More fun scrambling along the ridge.

Looking back after a short scramble toward Pass Mountain South Peak.

Pass Mountain ahead.


Cool ground colors along the route.

Last scramble to Pass Mountain's summit.

Pass Mountain summit, looking south to Pass Mountain South Peak.

Looking down at the drainage I descended. Couldn't find any useful cairns marking the way.

Desert views as I continue.

Eventually, I found a cairned route that avoids some cliff bands.

Looking back up the drainage/slope I came down.

Looking east toward the Pass Mountain Loop Trail. I chose to take the shorter way, though this way does look more interesting.

Along the Pass Mountain Loop Trail, heading west.

Pass Mountain Loop Trail, Pass Mountain visible on the top left.
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