Echo Cove South Face–Big Mo, 6 cliffs is an 8.8-mile out-and-back near Panorama Heights, CA. The route passes Big Mo, Echo Cove, Echo Cove South Face and 2 more before reaching The Gully (Echo Cove Back Side) at the turnaround, 4.4 miles in. It climbs 407 ft. It scores 84/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
Elevation
0 mi3,954 – 4,232 ft9.4 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 34.03981, -116.19711
Nearest town Panorama Heights, CA
Directions
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Echo Cove South Face–Big Mo, 6 cliffs
8.8 mi · ▲ 407 ft · 3 hr 8 min
Elevation 3,955–4,234 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: 34.03981, -116.19711
Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:32 AM · sunset 6:46 PM
Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading SW.
- 0.4 miTurn left onto Old Lost Horse Road Trail, heading SE.
- 1.4 miTurn left, heading E.
- 0.6 miBear left, heading N.
- 300 ftBear left, heading N.
- 0.6 miTurn left, heading SE.
- 0.1 miBear left, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading E.
- 0.4 miTurn right onto Keys Ranch Road, heading E.
- 0.8 miBear left, heading S.
- 50 ftPass Big Mo.
- 50 ftPass Echo Cove.
- 150 ftPass Effigy Wall.
- 50 ftPass Solo Dog Wall.
- 50 ftPass The Gully (Echo Cove Back Side).
- 150 ftReach Echo Cove South Face, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.8 miTurn left, heading NW.
- 0.4 miTurn left, heading SW.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading SW.
- 50 ftBear right, heading SW.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading S.
- 0.6 miBear right, heading W.
- 250 ftBear right, heading SW.
- 0.6 miTurn right onto Old Lost Horse Road Trail, heading SW.
- 1.4 miTurn right, heading NW.
- 0.3 miArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
Trail surface
31% sand28% dirt41% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:32 AMSunset 6:46 PM
Good to know
- Toilets at the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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- Old Lost Horse Road Trail 8.6 mi · ▲ 351 ft
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