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South Lykken Trail. Location: Palm Springs. Distance and elevation: 8.9 miles out and back; 2,209 feet elevation. Difficulty: Moderate. This is a fairly popular trail in southern Palm Springs, ...

South Lykken Trail. Location: Palm Springs. Distance and elevation: 8.9 miles out and back; 2,209 feet elevation. Difficulty: Moderate. This is a fairly popular trail in southern Palm Springs, ...

It's a grueling 22-mile, 12-hour hike that starts at the Lykken Trail in Palm Springs, continues to the summit of Mount San Jacinto and ends at the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway's Mountain Station.

A bighorn sheep butts against a cactus on the South Lykken Trail in Palm Springs, Calif. on Sunday, December 20, 2020. The sheep was part of a herd grazing along the trail.