Hiking: Mount Baden-Powell via Pacific Crest Trail

At 9,406 feet, Mount Baden-Powell is the fifth highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, after Mount Baldy, Pine Mountain, Dawson Peak, and Mount Harwood. Formerly known as North Baldy, it was named after the founder of the World Scouting Movement in 1931.

The trailhead is at Vincent Gap on the Angeles Crest Highway, near Wrightwood. The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) leads up 40 switchbacks through a pine forest to the summit ridge (its highest point south of the Sierra Nevada). From the summit ridge it is a short distance to Mount Baden-Powell summit.