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Hayley's Ascent of Mount Fairway (1080 feet)

Stats

  • Summit: Mount Fairway
  • Date of Ascent: 06-16-2010
  • Successful: yes
Trip Report: Much easier to find and climb than I'd anticipated. I went down Jonestown Rd. and parked at the Marguerite Lake Wildlife Management Area. I walked around there briefly, thinking it might be lovely, and it was okay, but the lake was all brown.

Anyway, went up to Lanning Trail, which was marked "private road", and there was construction on it. I asked these two kids in front of one of the houses if I could get up the mountain that way and they said no, but told me that I could walk in the woods next to the road up the mountain. I found a very faint path that I more or less followed directly upward. I was surprised to find it went directly to the radio tower at the summit. Glad I went that way, though, because the power line cut was all overgrown, and I'm not sure where the road leading to the tower came from.

Wanted to explore the nearby iron mine, but there were private property signs in that general direction along my way up, and I didn't know if I could make it down there without trespassing.