Mount Burnham | mountain, summit

USA / California / Wrightwood /
 mountain, summit
Elevation 2,742 m (8,997 ft)
Part of the 53-mile Boy Scout hiking trail that connects this summit to Mount Baden-Powell.

Named by USFS in 1951 in honor of Major Frederick Russell Burnham, (1861-1947) the famous American scout who taught scoutcraft to Lord Robert Baden-Powell, becoming one of the inspirations to the founding of the Boy Scouts. Burnham started as a cowboy and Indian tracker in the American Old West, but he left the United States to scout in Africa and went on to command the British Army Scouts in the Second Boer War. For his ability to at track even at night, the Africans dubbed him, ''He-who-sees-in-the-dark'', but in the press he became more widely known as ''England's American Scout''.

www.summitpost.org/mount-burnham/200070

www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=1310

hikingguy.com/hiking-trails/los-angeles-hikes/throop-pe...

www.wilderlist.app/mountain/5f04d20f676f544db0f0df17
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Burnham
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Coordinates:   34°21'32"N   117°46'53"W

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  • 1.64 miles from real place
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