Mount Pinos
- Mount Pinos
- 2692 m
- Primary factor 1463 m
- California, USA.
- Location: North 35.44933, West 118.38850 (GPS on the summit.)
- Difficulty: YDS class 1
- Climbed September 19. 2018
Mount Pinos
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How to get there:
Take Frazier Mountain Park Road west from I-5.
(This is the exit after Gorman when driving north on I-5.)
Keep right in Lake of the Woods, onto Cuddy Valley Road.
Stay on what appears to be the main road, this will get you
to the big parking lot at Mount Pinos trailhead. The location
is N34.81332, W119.12695, elevation about 2535 meter. Park here,
the summit road is closed with a gate just above this trailhead.
Route description:
Follow the summit road that starts out going parallel with the
parking lot, a few meter above it. You will see the summit
with an antenna as you cross a flat area below. Take the right
fork (to the antenna) when the road splits, this is essentially
there. The highest point has been kept outside the fence of
the antenna.
Comments:
I arrived at the parking at 1300 and walked to
the summit in 30 minutes. After
visiting the summit I walked
a bit further on the other branch of the road to see an
information sign as
well as a good viewpoint looking west.
I returned after 15 minutes and walked back down to my car
arriving there at 1405.
