Location: Ventura County, about 11 miles southwest of Frazier Park, 83 miles from Los Angeles

Maps

Auto Club: Ventura County, Los Angeles and Vicinity

Forest Service: Los Padres National Forest: Mt Pinos, Ojai and Santa Barbara Ranger Districts

USGS Topo: Lockwood Valley 7½

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

Nearby Peaks: San Guillermo Mountain

Distance: 5.5 miles round trip on trail and cross-country

Gain: 1200'

Time: 2 1/2-3 1/2 hours round trip

Rating: Class 1, easy

Navigation: Easy

Original: Paul A. Lipsohn, July 1974

DRIVING ROUTE 1

• Take I-5 north past Gorman to the Frazier Park turnoff.
• Go west on Frazier Park Mountain Road for 7 miles to the junction with the Lockwood Valley Road in Lake of the Woods. Turn left.
• Go 10.5 miles on the Lockwood Valley Road to the Mutau Road (7N03) on the left with a sign "Pine Springs CG". Turn left. Note your odometer and go as follows:
• At 2.1 miles, Piano Box Road on the left. Turn left.
• At 3.1 miles, fork. Go left.
• At 3.5 miles, a parking area just before the road goes down steeply into a wash. Park here.

HIKING ROUTE 1

• From the parking area (5500'), hike down the road, cross a creek bed and continue on to its intersection with the Yellow Jacket Trail (20W04).
• Turn left and hike north on the Yellow Jacket Trail past a series of meadows and past a 1-mile and a 2-mile paddle marker. Continue about 200 yards past the 2-mile paddle marker to where the road starts gently downhill. There may be a large duck on the right.
• Turn right, leave the trail, and go up the slope to the southeast and enter a prominent gully. There should be a faint use trail in the gully. Ascend this gully to where it begins to level off, not far below the saddle. About 50 yards below the saddle there is a clipped use trail with ducks that leads to the summit.