Steven's Peak-bagging Journey

March 20, 2017

2453m

Tucson / Santa Catalina Mountains, AZ

Leopold Point is a small summit on the Incinerator Ridge of the Santa Catalina Mountains in southern Arizona. There’s a pretty good trail running the whole Incinerator Ridge and tagging the summit is of Leopold Point is a short off-trail diversion. The access is also super easy thank to the built of Mt. Lemmon Highway and this peak was bagged along with a whole bunch of others in one shot. Earlier in the day I had already hiked/scrambled up Barnum Rock.

From the connecting col between Barnum Rock and Leopold Point I picked up the trail but near the summit I left it and went for my own route. The trail would traverse underneath the highest point towards the next bump along the ridge. After leaving the trail I came to a rock climbing area where a couple climbers were practicing their skills. Most of the travel was done in open forest and there’s no issue whatsoever to reach the high point.

After taking in the views I started the descent. I took a variation shooting more straight down the forested slope and this brought me down to the trail further west. This also turned out to be a bit easier than my ascent route. After rejoining the trail the rest of the way back to San Pedro Vista was fairly uneventful, but scenic.

Once back to the parking lot I wasted no time but soon focused on my next objective – Kellogg Mountain.