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Location: Kern County, about 16 miles north of Mojave, 120 miles from Los Angeles

Strenuous, 8 miles round trip from the Chuckwalla turnoff, 3500' gain, 6 hours
Class 1, moderate navigation following OHV tracks in desert terrain.
If combined with Chuckwalla the stats are 11 miles round trip with 5200' gain.
Original: John Backus, March 1973

From the summit of Chuckwalla Mountain, hike down the trail for Route 1 for Chuckwalla Mountain to the flat area just below the mine prospect.
From here, follow a motorcycle track southwest down into the saddle northeast of elevation 4616'.
Turn left at this saddle and follow a motorcycle track up to bump 4616', then turn right at a track running northwest generally down the point of the ridge to the gully.
Follow this down to an old cabin and auto body in the streambed at the bottom of the canyon (shown on the Cinco topo).
Turn left and go up the canyon following a motorcycle track. Note carefully the prominent rounded bump 4762' on your right that is east of the very rocky subsidiary peak 4784' of Cross Mountain. When directly south of bump 4762', the canyon floor splits into a west and southwest branch.
Take the southwest branch, which turns first west and then gradually northwest to a saddle at 4200'+.
Just before this saddle turn right onto a motorcycle track that continues all of the way to the summit.