Date: December 7, 2025 • Elevation: 4,943 feet ✳ • Prominence: 316 feet ✳ • Distance: 1.5 miles • Time: 1 hour • Gain: 450 feet • Conditions: Sunny, blue skies, pleasantly cool

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This little hill is nothing to write home about. It's a ranked peak (barely) in the Tombstone Hills, one of few remaining that I have yet to tag. I had just climbed Peak 5749 in the Whetstone Mountains and looked at finally hiking this peak once and for all on my way home.

From the Whetstones, I drove to Sierra Vista, then Charleston Road toward Tombstone. A few miles before the city, where the road starts to gain into the hills, I looked for a side road called Perseverance Road, leading into the hills toward the peak itself. The peak was easily visible, being close to the main road.

This road is unpaved and maintained. It passes two private properties, then curls around the second one, where the road becomes slightly rougher. I parked in a clearing well apart from the last property, about 200 feet before a gate to another property. Although the peak is on BLM land, there are a lot of little private-property enclaves and I wanted to avoid them and their inhabitants.

The peak rose right in front of me, so I decided to tackle it head on. I busted into the heavy brush and started pushing through it. It's mostly ocotillo, low cactus, acacia and other thorny brush, and various grasses. The ground is rocky, the rocks loose and lying loosely atop one another.

I found lanes about half the time, and other times just pushed through the plants. The grades were lenient and I did not have far to go. I achieved the main ridge above me, where I found two large mine-claim cairns. Nothing is active right here; these likely date from over a hundred years ago.

I gained one more hill, and the summit was just ahead, marked by a three-foot tall cairn. It hadn't taken me long, just a half hour and covering about three-quarters of a mile. The day was sunny and cloudless and I had fine views of the San Pedro River Valley, the Huachucas, and the rest of the Tombstone Hills around me. I snapped a few images, but could not locate a register.

I did not want to stick around long. I started right back down and followed the same route back to my car, the round trip taking about an hour. It felt good to finally tag this peak. I had hiked most of the rest of the surrounding ones yet had kept putting this one off. After dealing with the brush, I remembered why — the brush on the Tombstone Hills is notoriously pricky and pokey.

I drove into Tombstone, got gas, then went on a little road trip, taking Davis Road eastbound. There were a couple low hills in the area that if I could find a way on, would hike them.

I was curious about High Lonesome Road. which supposedly connects to US-80 near Bisbee. I had yet to drive it all the way through. I found it, and headed south a couple miles. All was well until it wasn't. The road suddenly becomes lousy and while possibly still Subaru-able, I chose not to bother. Instead, I backed out, and took paved connectors back to US-80 and Bisbee.