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Back in the day, Echo Mountain was the site of a resort that drew tourists from all over the world to take in the views of Southern California. It was destroyed in a wildfire, but now we get to go on a 5.4 mile hike with writing professor Amy Cannon and see the ruins at the summit, where we’ll eat lunch and hang out!
PACKING LIST:
Sunscreen/hat/sunglasses
Hiking shoes
lunch!
H2O
WAIVERS
PROFESSOR: Amy Cannon
DEPARTMENT: Writing, Thematic Option
RATE MY PROFESSOR: "Cannon is an incredible professor. She genuinely cares about you and your writing abilities and takes it upon herself to help you in any way she can.”
Professor Cannon is an expert in poetry and creative writing and a Thematic Option legend. This semester, she’s leading a reading salon on Hollywood and literature’s love affair with Los Angeles, as well as as writing seminar on what it truly means to do nothing — and how people have “done nothing” across different times and places.
PEAK: Echo Mountain
DIFFICULTY: 3/5
SCENERY: You’ll see the city on one side and mountains and forest on the other!
FUN FACT: Thaddeus Lowe, who built the resort, was an aeronautic inventor whose expertise was in balloons!
TRIP LEAD: Cari