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All Locations > New Mexico > Las Cruces Area… > Organ Mountains > Low Horns > Low Horn 4 (McCalla H…
Perhaps the most interesting thing found in the original Low Horn 4 summit register: a torn-in-half receipt/pay-stub (?) for $200 from Fort Bliss. Presumably, this was left in the register by Bernard Topp, perhaps almost exactly two years prior to his infamous death on descent of Shiprock.
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The Crux. Climb up over the round boulder on the right where the exposure may leave you wishing you'd rope up.
Eastside of LH4 from the 3/4 saddle. Scramble over the first section before heading up to the summit
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Drew Chojnowski
May 28, 2017
“Perhaps the most interesting thing found in the original Low Horn 4 summit register: a torn-in-half receipt/pay-stub (?) for $200 from Fort Bliss. Presumably, this was left in the register by Bernard Topp, perhaps almost exactly two years prior to his infamous death on descent of Shiprock.”  

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The Crux. Climb up over the round boulder on the right where the exposure may leave you wishing you'd rope up.
Perhaps the most interesting thing found in the original Low Horn 4 summit register: a torn-in-half receipt/pay-stub (?) for $200 from Fort Bliss. Presumably, this was left in the register by Bernard Topp, perhaps almost exactly two years prior to his infamous death on descent of Shiprock.
Eastside of LH4 from the 3/4 saddle. Scramble over the first section before heading up to the summit
The most recent entry of the original Low Horn 4 summit register.
Another two of three total entries in the original Low Horn 4 summit register, aside from the first ascent entry. It seems that first ascent must have occurred prior to 1959.
Record of the first ascent of Low Horn 4, as noted in the original register. It looks like Ron Hahn and Bernard Topp summited at 6AM and named the peak "McCalla Horn" (apparently this name didn't take hold), and then the rest of the party arrived at 9:15AM. No date is given.
The original Low Horn 4 summit register, recovered May 2017 by Marta Reece and I.
Marta Reece scrambling up to the NE ridge of low horn #4.