After hiking Eagle Mountain and Brown Peak, I drove north past the ghost town of Amargosa to a free campground known as The Pads, which consists of dozens of large concrete slabs suitable for RVs and campers. The next morning, I departed my campsite by foot, crossing Highway 190 en route to a northwesterly wash bisecting Pyramid Peak and Funeral Mountains Wilderness High Point. The original plan was to climb Pyramid Peak by itself, but motivated by good weather and a pesky fear of missing out, I decided to extend my outing and bag Funeral Mountains Wilderness High Point as well.
An established use trail leads from the wash to the summit of Pyramid Peak. Returning to the wash, I climbed a tributary drainage to the western ridge of Funeral Mountains Wilderness High Point. I skirted around a false summit before reaching the true summit (located a couple hundred yards northeast of the point marked on the USGS topo). I descended a steep scree bowl on the east face, which funneled into a long drainage. Once back on the desert floor, I followed a direct line back to the campground, concluding my rather spontaneous midweek trip to the eastern edge of Death Valley.
