I really like your second trip, but if you will be in the Happy Valley Saddle, I would definitely opt for a quick trip up Rincon Peak. But that is easy for me to say, I am not gaining the elevation.

There is (or was, I understand it is much diminished now) a large rock cairn on Rincon's summit, left over from the Geronimo campaigns of the 1890s. Rincon Peak was a station in the heliograph network used in that campaign.