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Here's the easy way to get up Hayfork Bally, if you don't want the 8.5 mile lesser maintained trail and Jeep road route:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2024/10/hayfork-bally-lookout-and-high-point.html
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A bit of view including the Trinity Alps on the way up Hayfork Bally.

Overlooking a steep bowl with a tall ridge on the right. The ridge has patches of bare and trees as it reaches out toward the center of the image. Behind it is another line of mountains with sharp points tending to light colors of bare rock. In the foreground, conifers stick up from quite a long way down.

Arriving at the lookout tower on Hayfork Bally.

A smooth gravel road leads off form the viewer, up a hill between patches of brush and rock, to a metal scaffold with a square building at the top. A shorter building with a large solar array is a little closer. A tall tree with its top broken off is behind looking like a huge green pipe cleaner. The sky is blue from top to bottom, but not uniform.

The higher peak to the east.

A rough road leading off to an ever so slightly higher rise of mountain. On the left, it is covered in green trees. On the right, it is bare rock and sparsely planted dirt. More mountains are visible behind.

USGS benchmark at the high point of Hayfork Bally.

A metal disk attached to a rock at center with a rather worn shoe beside it. The disk says "U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY B.M." and marks the elevation at 6262 (feet).

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