Location: Los Angeles County, about 14 miles north of Glendora, 65 miles from Los Angeles

Maps

Auto Club: Los Angeles and Vicinity

Forest Service: Angeles National Forest

USGS Topo: Crystal Lake 7½

HPS: Route(s), waypoints and explanation of usage

Nearby Peaks: Mount Hawkins, South Mount Hawkins (LO), Mount Islip

Distance: 4 miles round trip on trail

Gain: 1400' total, 1300' out plus 100' on return

Time: 2 1/2 hours round trip

Rating: Class 1, moderate

Navigation: Easy

Original: George Wysup, September 2000

DRIVING ROUTE 2

• From the intersection of I-210 and Angeles Crest Highway (SR 2), drive 41.6 miles on the Angeles Crest Highway to a parking area on the right at mile marker 66.37. Park here (UTM 240006).

HIKING ROUTE 2

• From the parking area (7260'), note the large center gully on the south side of the highway with a vertical culvert pipe at the bottom. On the left side of the gully there is an obvious use trail that ascends steeply up the slope.
• Hike up this use trail, bearing about 210°, 1/4 mile to Windy Gap (7588').
• Continue east on the PCT for 1.4 miles farther to saddle 8400', where a trail forks to the south. This is the turnoff for Mount Hawkins.
• Take the south fork, keeping left at what looks like an immediate fork, until the trail goes around the east side of elevation 8440'+ to the saddle south of it.
• Here a use trail goes off to the right and up the ridge to the summit about 1/3 mile from the trail fork.