** Use at Your Own Risk **
25E |
Wilshire Mountain |
8832'
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Location: San Bernardino County, about 8.5 miles northeast of Yucaipa, 81 miles from Los Angeles
Maps
- Auto Club: Los Angeles and Vicinity, San Bernardino Mountain Area
- Forest Service: San Bernardino National Forest
- USGS Topo: Forest Falls 7½
- HPS: Route(s), waypoints and explanation of usage
Nearby Peaks: Birch Mountain, Cedar Mountain, Wilshire Peak, Little San Gorgonio Peak
ROUTE 1
Yucaipa Ridge Traverse (5 peaks) from east to westFrom Little San Gorgonio Peak (USFS Adventure Pass required)
- Distance: 0.8 mile one way on road and cross-country
- Gain: 140'
- Time: 1 hour one way
- Rating: Class 1, very strenuous when combined with other peaks in the area
- Navigation: Easy
Original: Warren E. von Pertz
DRIVING ROUTE 1
- See the driving instructions for Little San Gorgonio Peak. This route assumes that you are hiking each peak along this section of Yucaipa Ridge (5 peaks).
HIKING ROUTE 1
- From Little San Gorgonio Peak, hike west along the ridge to a radio tower shown on the USGS topo map.
- Continue west on a dirt road down into a saddle.
- Continue west on the road until the road makes a sharp turn to the left.
- Leave the road to the right and hike north up to the peak. This is a wide wooded area. The peak is not named on the topo but is shown as 8832'.
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
The route continues west down Yucaipa Ridge past Birch Mountain to the Allen-Birch saddle. This route crosses private property. Contact the Hundred Peaks Section Outings Chair to arrange for permission to use this exit route.
The USGS topo shows a trail starting at Pilgrim Pines Camp in Oak Glen and going up to a point near Cedar Mountain. This trail crosses private property and must be used only with permission. Contact the Hundred Peaks Outings Chair to arrange for permission to use this route.
NOTES
This peak and the four nearby peaks are normally done together as a car shuttle trip. It is possible to descend the ridge from the saddle just east of Birch Mountain to the town of Forest Falls. See the Birch Mountain guide for additional information.
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Hundred Peaks Section, Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club
Published 17-December-2005
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