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The Sierra Peaks Section (SPS) is a mountaineering society within the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club that serves to provide mountaineering activities for Sierra Club members in the Sierra Nevada, and to honor mountaineers who have summited Sierra Nevada peaks.
The Hundred Peaks Section (HPS) is a mountaineering society within the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club that serves to provide mountaineering activities for Sierra Club members in the southern Sierra Nevada, the Transverse Ranges, and the Peninsular Ranges, and to honor mountaineers who have summited peaks in those mountain ranges.
The peak is within Los Angeles County, about 16 miles (26 km) north of Glendora, and 66 miles (106 km) from Los Angeles. In 1956, Mount Burnham was added to the list of Signature Summits by the Hundred Peaks Section of the Sierra Club .
He joined the Sierra Club in 1962, and was active in the Angeles Chapter, serving as the chair of the Sierra Peaks Section in 1976. [16] By 1985 he had climbed all of the 297 mountains on the Sierra Peaks list, and later climbed the 97 mountains on the Desert Peaks list twice. [ 17 ]
Sierra Club California is one of the most influential environmental voices in Sacramento, advocating for policies on behalf of the 13 local chapters. California — the birthplace of the club ...
The mountain, 5,791 feet (1,765 m) in elevation, is protected within the Angeles National Forest. It is north of Santa Clarita, west of Lake Hughes, and east of the Ridge Route. Just a few miles north lies the unincorporated town of Three Points. The Sierra Pelona Mountains are part of the Transverse Ranges System.
The History of the Sierra Club, 1892-1970 (1988) online; Hays, Samuel P. Beauty, health, and permanence : environmental politics in the United States, 1955-1985 (1987) online; Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American mind (3rd ed. 1982) Turner, Tom. Sierra Club: 100 Years of Protecting Nature (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991) ISBN ...
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