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** Use at Your Own Risk **
04C |
Eagle Rest Peak |
6005' |
Location: Kern County, about 12 miles west-northwest of Frazier Park, 80 miles from Los Angeles
Maps
| Auto Club | Kern County |
| Forest Service | Los Padres National Forest: Mt Pinos, Ojai and Santa Barbara Ranger Districts |
| USGS Topos | Eagle Rest Peak 7½, Sawmill Mountain 7½, Cuddy Valley 7½, Pleito Hills 7½ |
| Official HPS Maps | TPO file - Save to your computer then open with National Geographic TOPO! |
| Viewable PDF file - Approximately 4.2 megs | |
| GPX file or Google Earth KML file to download to GPS units and other map software (How to use GPX and KML files) | |
| Routes as shown on CalTopo using the above files (How to use CalTopo) |
Nearby Peaks: Antimony Peak
ROUTE 1
- Distance: 11 miles round trip on a poor road and cross-country
- Gain: 3700' total, 2300' out plus 1400' on return
- Time: 8 hours round trip
- Rating: Class 2, strenuous
- Navigation: Difficult
- Leader Rating: "I", normal conditions
Original: John Backus, July 1982
DRIVING ROUTE 1
- Go north on I-5 to the Frazier Park exit. Exit the freeway and turn left onto Frazier Mountain Park Road.
- Go west 12.2 miles to the junction with Mil Potrero Road. (The road changes name to Cuddy Valley Road at 7 miles.) Turn right (left goes to Mt. Pinos).
- Go west 4.5 miles to Nesthorn Way on the right (north). Turn right.
- Drive about 500' to the end of the paved cul-de-sac on Nesthorn Way.
- Exit the cul-de-sac on the right side on a dirt road (unnamed) and continue about 500' to a locked gate on the dirt road. Park here (4850'). Do not park on Nesthorn Way and do not block the locked gate. Permission is not required to hike down the road beyond the locked gate at this time.
HIKING ROUTE 1
- From the parking area, hike down the road about 1.4 miles along the west fork of San Emigdio Creek, passing a sign "Wind Wolves Preserve", to the junction with the east fork of San Emigdio Creek. The final portion of this road is washed out and should be bypassed on the left (northwest) slopes of the creek.
- Turn left (north) down the main canyon of San Emigdio Creek and continue to follow the road, where possible, down canyon to a gate with a sign "Private Property - KCL Co".
- Pass the gate and follow the faint roadbed northerly down San Emigdio Creek. The roadbed is much overgrown and is washed out in many places. Where it disappears, stay on the right side of the streambed. Continue down the road for about 2.3 miles to where the canyon widens out into a sagebrush-dotted meadow (3520'+). Across this meadow a grassy ridge comes down from the northeast with a faint use trail going up it.
- Follow the faint use trail up the ridge, eventually passing through a Pinyon pine grove (5500') and then ascend the steep grassy slope north toward the sandstone cliffs. An occasionally ducked route leads up through the cliffs just above the trees.
- The summit is reached immediately after ascending a ramp that passes the final large buttress on its right side.
ROUTE 2
(USFS Adventure Pass may be required)- Distance: 11 miles round trip on old road and cross-country through heavy brush
- Gain: 5300' total, 2400' out plus 2900' on return (includes gain and loss over Antimony Peak)
- Time: 8 hours round trip
- Rating: Class 2, very strenuous
- Navigation: Difficult
- Leader Rating: "I", normal conditions
Original: John Backus, July 1982
DRIVING ROUTE 2
- See the Antimony Peak guide.
HIKING ROUTE 2
- From the summit of Antimony Peak, follow the north-northwest ridge keeping to the right of the small bump just west of the summit of Antimony. The route from this point onward can be extremely brushy.
- Follow the ridge down to saddle 5520'+, then over major bump 6000'+, down to another saddle 5037' and then north up the ridge to about 5400'.
- From here go west to pick up Route 1 at about 5600', which proceeds as follows:
- An occasionally ducked route leads up through the cliffs. The summit is reached immediately after ascending a ramp that passes the final large buttress on its right side.
ALTERNATE ROUTE
Eagle Rest Peak and Antimony Peak can be combined into one hike by combining Route 1 for Antimony Peak with Route 1 and 2 for Eagle Rest Peak. The hike would go out to Antimony Peak via Antimony Route 1, continue to Eagle Rest Peak via Eagle Rest Route 2 and return to the vehicles via Eagle Rest Route 1. This will involve a car shuttle on 6 miles paved road and on 4.5 miles dirt road between the trailheads.
ROUTE 3
Note: This route withdrawn due to access complications.
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