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Location: Kern County, about 16 miles north-northeast of Mojave, 110 miles from Los Angeles

Maps

Auto Club: Kern County

USGS Topo: Cinco 7½

HPS: Route(s), waypoints and explanation of usage

Nearby Peaks: Cross Mountain

Distance: 4 miles round trip on road and cross-country

Gain: 1400'

Time: 3 hours round trip

Rating: Class 1, moderate

Navigation: Moderate

Leader Rating: "I", normal conditions

Original: John Backus, March 1973

DRIVING ROUTE 1

• From Mojave, drive north on SR 14 for 14.0 miles to Lonetree Canyon Road. (You can see the white L.A. aqueduct pipe from here but from nowhere else.) Turn left. Note your odometer and go as follows:
• At 0.4 mile, power lines.
• At 1.3 miles, go under the new aqueduct (tall vehicles take the left fork). Keep straight ahead (west) at a fork just past the aqueduct.
• At 2.1 miles, fork. Go right. There is a good campsite here.
• At 2.3 miles, cross the old aqueduct and cattle guard and go right at the immediate next fork. The road turns north into a canyon.
• At 3.4 miles, fork. Keep straight.
• At 3.5 miles, the road turns sharp right and goes up a ridge.
• At 3.8 miles, fork. Go sharp left.
• At 4.0 miles, the road starts downhill and a jeep road forks to the left. Go left on the jeep road.
• At 4.5 miles, the road forks in a saddle. Park here.

HIKING ROUTE 1

• From the parking area (3600'), follow motorcycle tracks northwest up the ridge to where a road comes up from the right.
• Follow this road as it goes steeply up the hill, swings around to the right, and ends in a flat area, just below a mining prospect.
• From the prospect a well-defined use trail contours around the east side of elevation 4964' into a saddle northeast of it, then up the ridge to the summit.

Distance: 8 miles round trip on road and cross-country

Gain: 3100' total, 2700' out plus 400' on return

Time: 5-7 hours round trip

Rating: Class 1, moderate

Navigation: Moderate

Leader Rating: "I", normal conditions

Original: Charlie Knapke, December 1995

DRIVING ROUTE 2

• From Mojave, drive north on SR 14 for 19.5 miles to Jawbone Canyon Road on the left. Turn left. Note your odometer and go as follows:
• At 4.1 miles, pavement ends.
• At 6.3 miles, fork with a gated road to the left. Park here. This is also the parking spot for Cross Mountain.

HIKING ROUTE 2

• From the parking area (2700'), hike past the gate for 0.4 mile to a fork to the left.
• Turn left and follow this road ("White Rock Mine Road") about a mile to where it turns left and crosses a wash.
• Leave the road on the right here and follow this wash a short distance southwest and then up to the top of the ridge straight ahead. This is about 1/4 mile south of elevation 3362'.
• Follow the ridge over several bumps until reaching the final slopes of the peak itself, where a motorcycle track comes in from the left.
• Take this motorcycle trail to the main saddle just north of Chuckwalla and then head steeply south cross-country to the summit.

Route 2 can be combined with Routes 1 and 2 for Cross Mountain to allow both peaks to be done as a loop trip without the need for a car shuttle. This trip can be done in a clockwise or counter clockwise configuration.

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