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Echo Rock–Banana Cracks - West Face, 3 cliffs is a 5.3-mile out-and-back near Panorama Heights, CA. The route passes Banana Cracks - West Face and Chongo Boulder before reaching Echo Rock at the turnaround, 2.6 miles in. It climbs 393 ft and is mostly dirt. It scores 77/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi4,085 – 4,341 ft6.0 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Quail Springs Historic Trail 34.02586, -116.17526
Nearest town Panorama Heights, CA

Directions

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Echo Rock–Banana Cracks - West Face, 3 cliffs

5.3 mi · ▲ 393 ft · 1 hr 58 min

Elevation 4,085–4,340 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Quail Springs Historic Trail · 34.02586, -116.17526

Weather Sep 21: sunrise 6:32 AM · sunset 6:46 PM

Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Quail Springs Historic Trail, heading SW.
  2. 0.1 miPass Banana Cracks - West Face.
  3. 50 ftContinue straight onto Mindless Mound Approach, heading W.
  4. 50 ftBear left, heading W.
  5. 50 ftContinue straight onto Quail Springs Historic Trail, heading W.
  6. 450 ftTurn right, heading NW.
  7. 0.6 miTurn left, heading SE.
  8. 0.1 miBear left, heading E.
  9. 50 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  10. 50 ftTurn right, heading SE.
  11. 0.4 miTurn right onto Keys Ranch Road, heading E.
  12. 0.8 miPass Chongo Boulder.
  13. 0.1 miTurn left, heading S.
  14. 50 ftTurn right, heading SE.
  15. 150 ftBear left, heading SE.
  16. 350 ftBear left onto Barker Dam Trail, heading SE.
  17. 450 ftContinue straight onto Approach to Snickers North Face, heading S.
  18. 50 ftTurn left, heading S.
  19. 500 ftSharp left, heading NE.
  20. 250 ftReach Echo Rock, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  21. 300 ftSharp right, heading NE.
  22. 0.1 miContinue straight onto Barker Dam Trail, heading NE.
  23. 450 ftBear right, heading NW.
  24. 300 ftBear right, heading N.
  25. 200 ftTurn left, heading N.
  26. 50 ftTurn right onto Keys Ranch Road, heading N.
  27. 0.9 miTurn left, heading NW.
  28. 0.5 miTurn left, heading SW.
  29. 50 ftTurn right, heading SW.
  30. 50 ftBear right, heading SW.
  31. 0.1 miTurn right, heading W.
  32. 0.6 miTurn left onto Quail Springs Historic Trail, heading NW.
  33. 500 ftBear right onto Mindless Mound Approach, heading SW.
  34. 50 ftContinue straight onto Quail Springs Historic Trail, heading SW.
  35. 250 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

64% dirt36% 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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