Mount Baden-Powell

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Mount Baden-Powell er en bjergtinde i San Gabriel Mountains i Californien. Den blev opkaldt efter spejderbevægelsens stifter, lord Robert Baden-Powell, ved en officiel ceremoni i 1931, hvor B-P's ven siden boerkrigene, Frederick Russell Burnham|Burnham, holdt talen.

Bjergtinden var indtil da kendt som North Baldy eller East Twin, og en vestligere tinde på samme bjergkam er kaldt Mount Burnham efter Burnham.

At Skabelon:Convert in elevation, Mount Baden-Powell is the 4th highest peak of the San Gabriel Range, Mount San Antonio or "Old Baldy" being the highest at Skabelon:Convert. The summit has long been a favorite hiking excursion either from the Mount Islip Saddle near Little Jimmy Trail Camp, or the Vincent Gap Trail which leads up a moderate to strenuous set of switchbacks from Wrightwood. Mount Baden-Powell is also the high point along the The Silver Moccasin Trail, a historic Skabelon:Convert Boy Scout hiking trail, connects this summit to Mount Burnham (less than 1,5 km away), Throop Peak and Mount Hawkins.

The Vincent Gap hike leads through a variety of forested areas consisting of Jeffrey Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Lodgepole Pine, Incense-cedar, and an ancient forest of Limber Pine some of which are more than 2,000 years old.

In 1957 several Southern California councils of the Boy Scouts of America placed a formal marker at the summit with a plaque dedicated to Lord Baden-Powell.