Location: Ventura County, about 14 miles east-northeast of Ojai, 85 miles from Los Angeles

Maps

Auto Club: Ventura County

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

USGS Topo: Topatopa Mountains 7½, Santa Paula Peak 7½, Ojai 7½

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

Nearby Peaks: Topatopa Bluff, Chief Peak

Distance: 18 miles round trip on road, trail, and use trail

Gain: 5000'

Time: 9-10 hours round trip

Rating: Class 1, strenuous

Original: Warren E. von Pertz, November 1967

DRIVING ROUTE 1

• Take SR 126 to Santa Paula. Turn north on SR 150. Note your odometer here.
• At 8.8 miles the Summit School (unsigned) is on the right. Just before the school, turn right on Sisar Avenue. This is a very narrow and worn paved road. Note your odometer here.
• Go past some houses to where the road turns to dirt, keeping right at two forks.
• At 0.8 mile a water tank. Low clearance cars should park here.
• At 1.0 mile a locked gate. All cars park here.

HIKING ROUTE 1

• From the parking area (1850'), pass the gate and hike up the road which goes up Sisar Canyon. Continue for about 3 miles to where the road makes its second major switchback to the left.
• Look for a trail sign straight in front of you, indicating 2.5 miles to the Nordhoff Ridge Road. Take this trail (21W08) up Sisar Canyon as it passes through the overgrown White Ledge Campsite and on to its junction with the Nordhoff Ridge Road (4N15). That junction is depicted in the extreme southwest corner of the Topatopa Mountains topo.
• Turn right on this road and follow it 3.5 miles to its end in a saddle 0.4 mile northwest of Hines Peak.
• From here go southeast up the narrow ridge following a faint use trail up to the summit. The summit is marked by a sign "Hines Peak".