Beaver Boulder & Banana Cracks - West Face via Old Lost Horse Road Trail is a 9-mile out-and-back near Panorama Heights, CA. The route passes Banana Cracks - West Face before reaching Beaver Boulder at the turnaround, 4.5 miles in. It climbs 269 ft. It scores 89/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
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Beaver Boulder & Banana Cracks - West Face via Old Lost Horse Road Trail
9 mi · ▲ 269 ft · 3 hr 8 min
Elevation 4,062–4,257 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: Quail Springs Historic Trail · 34.02586, -116.17526
Weather Aug 4: Clear, high 98°F / low 74° · precip 1% · wind 6 mph · sunrise 5:58 AM · sunset 7:45 PM
Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Quail Springs Historic Trail, heading SW.
- 0.1 miPass Banana Cracks - West Face.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Mindless Mound Approach, heading W.
- 50 ftBear left onto Quail Springs Historic Trail, heading W.
- 500 ftTurn left, heading NW.
- 250 ftBear right, heading SW.
- 0.3 miBear left, heading S.
- 0.4 miBear right, heading S.
- 0.3 miTurn right onto Old Lost Horse Road Trail, heading SW.
- 0.1 miSharp left, heading SW.
- 0.5 miTurn right, heading S.
- 1.3 miTurn left, heading SE.
- 1.2 miTurn left, heading E.
- 250 ftReach Beaver Boulder, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 250 ftTurn right, heading E.
- 1.2 miTurn right, heading W.
- 1.3 miTurn left, heading E.
- 0.6 miTurn left, heading NW.
- 0.3 miBear left, heading N.
- 0.4 miBear right, heading NW.
- 0.3 miBear left, heading N.
- 250 ftTurn right onto Quail Springs Historic Trail, heading N.
- 500 ftBear right onto Mindless Mound Approach, heading N.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Quail Springs Historic Trail, heading N.
- 500 ftArrive back at the trailhead.
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- Toilets at the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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More from Quail Springs Historic Trail Trailhead
- Keys Ranch Road 3.8 mi · ▲ 108 ft
- Echo Cove South Face–Banana Cracks - West Face, 7 cliffs 4.3 mi · ▲ 164 ft
- Turtle Rock–The Hat, 7 rocks 4.5 mi · ▲ 190 ft
- Old Lost Horse Road Trail 4.7 mi · ▲ 244 ft
- Keys Ranch Road 5.1 mi · ▲ 161 ft
- Echo Rock–Banana Cracks - West Face, 3 cliffs 5.3 mi · ▲ 393 ft
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