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Condor Peak is a 5,442-foot-elevation (1,659 meter) mountain summit located in the
''9C Condor Peak''
Hundred Peaks Section, Sierra Club, Retrieved 2024-05-22. This landform's toponym has been officially adopted by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
Condor Peak
{{Geographic Location 2 , Center = Condor Peak , North = Iron Mountain , Northeast = West Fork Fox Creek , East = Fox Creek , Southeast = Big Tujunga Dam , South = Big Tujunga Creek , Southwest = Ybarra Canyon , West = Condor Canyon , Northwest = Big Cienega Canyon Mountains of Los Angeles County, California North American 1000 m summits Angeles National Forest San Gabriel Mountains Mountains of Southern California San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
San Gabriel Mountains
The San Gabriel Mountains ( es, Sierra de San Gabriel) are a mountain range located in northern Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, United States. The mountain range is part of the Tr ...
, in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States and in the U.S. state of California, with 9,861,224 residents estimated as of 2022. It is the ...
, California, United States.
Description
Condor Peak is set within San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, approximately north of downtown Los Angeles. The May 2, 2024, expansion of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by President Biden brought Condor Peak within the boundary of the monument. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises over above Ybarra Canyon in approximately one mile (1.6 km). Reaching the summit involves 14 miles of hiking with 4,260 feet of elevation gain.Jerry Schad, ''Afoot and Afield: Los Angeles County: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide'', Wilderness Press, 2010, , p. 209. The mountain is named for the California condor which was common here in the early 1900s.Hundred Peaks Section, Sierra Club, Retrieved 2024-05-22.
Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Condor Peak is located in acontinental climate
Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm summers and cold winters). They tend to occur in the middle latitudes (40 to 55 north), within large landmasses where prevailing winds blow overland bringing som ...
zone (Dsa) with mostly dry summers (except for scattered summer thunderstorms) and cold, wet winters. Most weather fronts originating in the Pacific Ocean travel east toward the San Gabriel Mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks ( orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture onto the range. Precipitation runoff from this mountain's chaparral-covered slopes drains to Big Tujunga Creek.
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{{Geographic Location 2 , Center = Condor Peak , North = Iron Mountain , Northeast = West Fork Fox Creek , East = Fox Creek , Southeast = Big Tujunga Dam , South = Big Tujunga Creek , Southwest = Ybarra Canyon , West = Condor Canyon , Northwest = Big Cienega Canyon Mountains of Los Angeles County, California North American 1000 m summits Angeles National Forest San Gabriel Mountains Mountains of Southern California San Gabriel Mountains National Monument