Source:
HPS Website
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Akawie, Mount
| Peak Information |
| HPS Peak ID: |
13B |
| Peak Area: |
North of Angeles Crest Hwy 2 |
| Elevation: |
7294 |
| Peak Class: |
Class 1, easy |
| Topo Map: |
Waterman Mountain |
| TopoZone Map: |
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USGS Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) covering this feature from TerraServer. A DRG is a digitized version of a USGS topographic map.
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USGS Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle (DOQ) covering this feature from TerraServer.
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| NAD27 Coordinates |
| Latitude: |
34.35263 |
| Longitude: |
-117.91608 |
| UTM Zone: |
11S |
| UTME: |
415750 |
| UTMN: |
3801440 |
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| NAD83 Coordinates |
| Latitude: |
34.35263 |
| Longitude: |
-117.91698 |
| UTM Zone: |
11S |
| UTME: |
415669 |
| UTMN: |
3801637 |
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| Comments |
Location: Los Angeles County, about 16 miles north of Azusa, 49 miles from Los Angeles
Maps
Auto Club: Los Angeles and Vicinity
Forest Service: Angeles National Forest
USGS Topo: Waterman Mountain 7½
Nearby Peaks: Winston Peak, Winston Ridge
Renamed in 1990 by the HPS after Richard L. Akawie (1925-89), Chemist, Six time List Finisher, Angeles Chapter Activity Schedule Editor (1966-89), Phil Bernays Award (1976,1988), Oliver Kehrlein Award (1984), and committed conservationist. This was his favorite peak. A Memorial Grove was planted with Jeffrey Pines near the summit by the HPS (1990).
Earlier names include: an unknown Shoshone name for a summer rancheria, "Buckhorn Mountain" (1946 list), then "Buckhorn Peak" (1956 List) after the Newcomb Brothers name for adjacent Buckhom flats where they once found a very large set of buck horns nailed to a tree. This peak was also once known as "Pine Mountain #3.
Mount Akawie is an HPS use-name.
Peak was on the original 1946 HPS Peak List.
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