** Use at Your Own Risk **
01B |
Bohna Peak |
6760'
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Location: Kern County, about 9 miles west of Kernville, 180 miles from Los Angeles
Maps
- Auto Club: Kern County
- Forest Service: Sequoia National Forest
- USGS Topo: Tobias Peak 7½, Alta Sierra 7½
- HPS: Route(s), waypoints and explanation of usage
Nearby Peaks: Sunday Peak
ROUTE 1
- Distance: 3 miles round trip on use trail and cross-country
- Gain: 1400'
- Time: 2 hours round trip
- Rating: Class 1, easy
- Navigation: Easy
- Leader Rating: "I", normal conditions
Original: John Backus, 1974
DRIVING ROUTE 1
- From Lake Isabella (city) drive north on SR 155 for 7.0 miles to where it turns left in Wofford Heights. Turn left.
- Drive 7.7 miles farther to Greenhorn Summit. This is the turnoff point for Sunday Peak, Split Mountain and Black Mountain #5. Continue straight on SR 155.
- Drive 5.8 miles farther to a dirt road 24S07 on the right. Turn right.
- Drive 2.0 miles to a jeep road on the right. Park near here.
HIKING ROUTE 1
- From the parking area (5480'), follow the jeep road east. It soon becomes a use trail.
- Follow this use trail 1 1/2 miles to saddle 6480'.
- Turn right (south) and ascend cross-country less 1/2 mile to the summit.
ROUTE 2
- Distance: 4 miles round trip cross-country
- Gain: 2000'
- Time: 3-4 hours round trip
- Rating: Class 1, moderate
- Navigation: Moderate
- Leader Rating: "I", normal conditions
Original: John Backus, 1985
DRIVING ROUTE 2
- From Lake Isabella (city) drive north on SR 155 for 7.0 miles to where it turns left in Wofford Heights. Turn left.
- Continue on SR 155 to Cedar Creek Campground on the right. Park here.
HIKING ROUTE 2
- From the campground (4800'), hike upstream along the canyon for more than 1/4 mile.
- After climbing past two waterfalls and then past a large pool above them, begin looking on the west side of the stream for a use trail.
- Take the use trail, which zigzags through brush to gain the east ridge of Bohna Peak.
- Continue west along this ridge to the summit.
ALTERNATE ROUTE
Bohna can be climbed from a trail junction near Sunday Peak. The Sunday Peak Route 2 guide describes this route.
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Hundred Peaks Section, Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club
Published 31-December-2005
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