Printable Peak Guide

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Location: Santa Barbara County, about 15 miles northwest of Ojai, 90 miles from Los Angeles

Auto Club	Santa Barbara County
Forest Service	Los Padres National Forest: Mt Pinos, Ojai and Santa Barbara Ranger Districts
USGS Topos	Old Man Mountain 7½, White Ledge Peak 7½
Official HPS Maps	TPO file - Save to your computer then open with National Geographic TOPO!
	Viewable JPG file - Approximately 880K
	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)

(USFS Adventure Pass may be required)

Distance: 33 miles round trip on road and cross-country
Gain: 3600' total, 2100' out plus 1500' on return
Time: Variable - at this distance, Route 1 probably becomes a backpack or biking trip
Rating: Class 1, strenuous
Navigation: Easy
Leader Rating: "O", normal conditions
Original: Warren E. von Pertz and Al Campbell, 1967

Take US 101 freeway to Ventura.
Go north on SR 33 to the town of Ojai.
From the intersection of SR 150 and SR 33 in Ojai, go north on SR 33 for 32 miles to Pine Mountain Summit. Turn left on a gated and locked dirt road. This is the Potrero Seco Road. Park here.

Hike or bike past the gate, and go as follows:
At 3.4 miles, keeping right at all forks to a cattle guard, continue straight.
At 4.9 miles, Don Victor trail on the right. Continue straight.
At 7.3 miles, fork. Go right.
At 8.1 miles is a set of large gendarmes marked on the TOPO as "Three Sisters". This is the turnoff for Hildreth Peak.
At 8.6 miles, gate. Keep straight ahead.
At 14.1 miles, gate at a road fork.
From this point (5800'), take the left road fork.
Follow the road 0.8 mile to the summit, which is just west of the road.