2023-10-02, 12:05 PM
(2023-10-02, 07:28 AM)MojaveGeek Wrote: There is an unofficial but well (excessively) cairned route / use trail from 190 into Jayhawker. I can't recall exactly where it leaves 190 but you should be able to find it on satellite images.
The route to Jayhawker starts at the 3000 foot elevation sign on Hwy 190 between Stovepipe and Towne Pass. When we first hiked Jayhawker long ago, there was no marked path. We did it a second time in 2010. The cairns were there. I talked with rangers about the marked path. They don't know who did it and were not happy about it. It took a lot of work to mark that trail. It had to have been done by someone who bring groups on a regular basis. Boy scouts? College geology class?