Banana Cracks - East Face–Mindless Mound, 5 cliffs is a 14.8-mile out-and-back near Panorama Heights, CA. The route passes Trashcan Rock - West Face and Banana Cracks - East Face before reaching Mindless Mound at the turnaround, 7.4 miles in. It climbs 808 ft. It scores 87/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
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Banana Cracks - East Face–Mindless Mound, 5 cliffs
14.8 mi · ▲ 808 ft · 5 hr 20 min
Elevation 3,737–4,166 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: Creosote Trail · 34.07294, -116.23752
Weather Aug 3: Clear, high 99°F / low 79° · precip 0% · wind 15 mph · sunrise 5:58 AM · sunset 7:45 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Creosote Trail, heading SW.
- 0.6 miBear left onto Bigfoot Trail, heading SW.
- 1.4 miTurn left onto Quail Wash, heading NE.
- 1.8 miContinue straight onto Quails Springs Historic, heading SE.
- 1 miBear right, heading E.
- 50 ftPass Trashcan Rock - West Face.
- 50 ftBear right, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading E.
- 0.4 miTurn left onto Old Lost Horse Road Trail, heading SW.
- 1.4 miTurn left, heading SE.
- 0.6 miBear left, heading N.
- 250 ftTurn right onto Quail Springs Historic Trail, heading N.
- 500 ftSharp left onto Mindless Mound Approach, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Approach to Banana Cracks East Face, heading N.
- 250 ftTurn left onto Approach to Red Bull, heading E.
- 50 ftPass Mindless Mound.
- 200 ftReach Banana Cracks - East Face, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 250 ftTurn right onto Approach to Banana Cracks East Face, heading E.
- 250 ftTurn left onto Mindless Mound Approach, heading E.
- 50 ftSharp right onto Quail Springs Historic Trail, heading NE.
- 450 ftTurn left, heading N.
- 300 ftBear right, heading E.
- 0.6 miTurn right onto Old Lost Horse Road Trail, heading S.
- 1.4 miTurn right, heading NW.
- 0.4 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear left, heading NE.
- 150 ftBear left onto Quails Springs Historic, heading N.
- 1 miContinue straight onto Quail Wash, heading W.
- 1.8 miTurn right onto Bigfoot Trail, heading W.
- 1.4 miBear right onto Creosote Trail, heading N.
- 0.5 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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- Parking lot at the trailhead
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