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The Sam Merrill Trail is a major hiking trail in the Las Flores Canyon of the San Gabriel Mountain Range north of Altadena, California, which leads to the top of Echo Mountain. It was built by Charles Warner and the Forest Conservation Club of Pasadena during the 1930s.
For six short years, visitors came to Echo Mountain to vacation like kings. You can hike there and imagine its charm.
Echo has a mean elevation of 3,207 feet (977 m). It is most visible as a short mountain extension whose ridge protrudes below the peak of Inspiration Point. [citation needed] Echo Mountain's name is derived from the number of repetitions one's voice [4] could emit into Castle Canyon. Boy Scout projects were made to find the "sweet spot" where ...
Altadena (pronunciation ⓘ) is an unincorporated area [3] [4] and census-designated place in the San Gabriel Valley and the Verdugos [5] regions of Los Angeles County, California. Directly north of the city of Pasadena, California , it is approximately 14 miles (23 km) from downtown Los Angeles .
That creates a mountain wave, he said, where winds speed down the side of a mountain. A Chevron gas station on Lake Avenue burned in the Eaton fire in Altadena. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)
Jason Deach and Mike Griswold — two handymen at the Zorthian Ranch, an artists colony in Altadena — had escaped the flames hours earlier, racing into the smoke, wind howling, buildings burning ...
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The Railway opened on July 4, 1893, and consisted of nearly seven miles (11 km) of track starting in Altadena, California, at a station called Mountain Junction. Atop Echo Mountain was a 70-room Victorian hotel, the Echo Mountain House. A short distance away stood the 40-room Echo Chalet, which was ready for opening day.