Western Access to Tikaboo Pk?

Message posted by Allison Wunderland on June 12, 2012 at 13:00:44 PST:

From 375 west toward Groom Lake (Google Earth shows it as "51 Rd".) about 4.25 mile to Rock Springs Rd., then south 2.35 mi. along Rock Springs Rd. to a junction at

37°21'45.09"N
115°27'23.59"W

This a "cow trail" running east 2 miles to a dead-end, or if you take the fork north a "turn round" area.

From here ("trail-head" -- maybe) there appears to be a route up a canyon, east to the ridge and then south to Tikaboo Pk. Approx distance is 7.1 miles, although this as a "loose path" traced w/ Google Earth.

I expect the western face of this ridge is going to be daunting, for experienced hikers/climbers. But it looks like if one packed decent boots, water, gear, this could be an access to Tikaboo Pk.

I'm far removed and looking at Google Earth, some contour stuff on a Garmin GPS.

Has anyone "on the ground" ever considered this approach?

And is this area accessible w/o trespassing into "Restricted Area" land and getting "Lethal Force Authorized" ???

Let me work on capturing an image on Google Earth, and posting it here.

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