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Big Mo–Touch and Go Face, 3 cliffs is a 3.9-mile out-and-back near Panorama Heights, CA. The route passes Big Mo and Echo Cove before reaching Touch and Go Face at the turnaround, 1.9 miles in. It is mostly level, with 135 ft of elevation gain, and mostly dirt. It scores 81/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi4,085 – 4,223 ft4.2 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Quail Springs Historic Trail 34.02598, -116.18002
Nearest town Panorama Heights, CA

Directions

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Big Mo–Touch and Go Face, 3 cliffs

3.9 mi · ▲ 135 ft · 1 hr 22 min

Elevation 4,085–4,223 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Quail Springs Historic Trail · 34.02598, -116.18002

Weather Sep 21: sunrise 6:33 AM · sunset 6:44 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading N.
  2. 0.6 miTurn left, heading E.
  3. 0.1 miBear left, heading E.
  4. 50 ftTurn left, heading E.
  5. 50 ftTurn right, heading SE.
  6. 0.4 miTurn right onto Keys Ranch Road, heading E.
  7. 0.8 miBear left, heading S.
  8. 50 ftPass Echo Cove.
  9. 50 ftPass Touch and Go Face.
  10. 50 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  11. 50 ftReach Big Mo, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  12. 50 ftTurn right, heading SE.
  13. 0.8 miTurn left, heading NW.
  14. 0.4 miTurn left, heading S.
  15. 50 ftTurn right, heading S.
  16. 50 ftBear right, heading S.
  17. 0.1 miTurn right, heading SW.
  18. 0.5 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

62% dirt38% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:33 AMSunset 6:44 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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