Little Hunk - Northeast Face & Chongo Boulder via Keys Ranch Road is a 4.6-mile out-and-back near Panorama Heights, CA. The route passes Chongo Boulder before reaching Little Hunk - Northeast Face at the turnaround, 2.3 miles in. It is mostly level, with 196 ft of elevation gain. It scores 79/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
Elevation
0 mi4,101 – 4,242 ft5.2 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 34.02978, -116.17850
Nearest town Panorama Heights, CA
Directions
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Little Hunk - Northeast Face & Chongo Boulder via Keys Ranch Road
4.6 mi · ▲ 196 ft · 1 hr 38 min
Elevation 4,101–4,242 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: 34.02978, -116.17850
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 E.
- 0.3 miBear right, heading E.
- 0.1 miBear left, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading NE.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading NE.
- 0.5 miTurn right onto Keys Ranch Road, heading E.
- 0.8 miPass Chongo Boulder.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading S.
- 200 ftBear left, heading SE.
- 300 ftBear left onto Barker Dam Trail, heading NE.
- 450 ftContinue straight onto Approach to Snickers North Face, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading E.
- 100 ftContinue straight onto Barker Dam Trail, heading NE.
- 200 ftContinue straight onto Mounds Approach, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear left onto Barker Dam Trail, heading NE.
- 0.1 miBear right onto Approach to Little Hunk Northeast Face, heading N.
- 150 ftContinue straight onto Approach to Poker Face, heading N.
- 100 ftBear right onto Approach to Little Hunk Northeast Face, heading N.
- 250 ftReach Little Hunk - Northeast Face, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 250 ftBear left onto Approach to Poker Face, heading N.
- 150 ftContinue straight onto Approach to Little Hunk Northeast Face, heading N.
- 150 ftBear left onto Barker Dam Trail, heading NE.
- 0.1 miBear right onto Mounds Approach, heading SE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Barker Dam Trail, heading SE.
- 300 ftTurn right onto Approach to Snickers North Face, heading NW.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Barker Dam Trail, heading NW.
- 450 ftBear right, heading S.
- 300 ftBear right, heading S.
- 200 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Keys Ranch Road, heading SE.
- 0.9 miTurn left, heading NW.
- 0.5 miTurn left, heading SW.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading SW.
- 50 ftBear right, heading W.
- 0.1 miBear left, heading W.
- 0.3 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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Trail surface
58% dirt42% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:32 AMSunset 6:46 PM
Good to know
- Toilets at the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
Other ways to reach this destination
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- Boy Scout Trail 11.1 mi · ▲ 380 ft
- Boy Scout Trail 6.2 mi · ▲ 187 ft
- Old Lost Horse Road Trail 6.1 mi · ▲ 246 ft
- Old Lost Horse Road Trail 4.6 mi · ▲ 188 ft
- Keys Ranch Road 4.7 mi · ▲ 186 ft
- Keys Ranch Road 4.5 mi · ▲ 219 ft
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