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Wrangle Mountain, NV | August 2022

Submitted by KI7EMX on
Summit
Trail Characteristics
APRS Coverage
Don't know
Cellular Provider
AT&T
Voice Cellular Coverage
No service at all
Data Cellular Coverage
No service at all

There are no established trails to the summit, but you basically head east up the mountain. This is a total bushwhack, steep and lots of scrub oak and sagebrush. The summit is exposed with lots of room to set-up my inverted “V” wire antenna. The ascent is just shy of a half mile and 500 feet of elevation gain. The first 8 miles of the dirt road is Prius friendly but the remaining drive requires high clearance, though not a 4wd.

Quartzite Butte (W7N/EN-094) is just a stones throw to the south and makes for a short double activation.

Directions: Head west from Hwy 93 onto Three Creek Road out of Rogerson, ID.  This is also called Jarbidge Road. Turn east off Three Creek Road at 42.11494, -115.02895. It doesn’t appear this road has a name or designation.  Continue generally south on this road for approximately 8.33 miles and then turn right at 42.00408, -115.01320 (maps don’t indicate a number/name).  As you drive down this road, you’ll cross a cattle guard at the Idaho/Nevada border and shortly thereafter a sign for Humbolt National Forest.  From the beforementioned intersection drive approximately 5.75 miles south to a side road (left turn) that begins the ascent to Wrangle Mountain.  I drove as far as I felt safe and parked (41.93576, -115.05072).  From here the hike to the summit begins. I couldn’t open the cattle gate so had to climb over the barbed wire fence.

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