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For six short years, visitors came to Echo Mountain to vacation like kings. You can hike there and imagine its charm.
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.
When the weather was right, I walked down the driveway and hiked uphill to the trail leading up to Echo Mountain and eventually to Inspiration Point. It was so accessible, I called it “my mountain." On Echo Mountain you could find the remains of a resort and hotel that burned in fires in the early 1900s.
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 ...
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)
Although the mountains and the remains of the railway are not strictly in Altadena, the most direct trail to the sites, the Sam Merrill Trail, starts in Altadena at the top of Lake Avenue, and leads to Mount Echo, about 3 miles (4.8 km). Chaney Trail, just west of the intersection at Fair Oaks Avenue and Loma Alta Street, is a forestry service ...
The Eaton fire, which has carved a devastating path through Altadena, has burned just over 14,100 acres and was 35% contained, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
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