Maps and Maping: The Firefighter's Life Line
Maps and Maping: The Firefighter's Life Line is an artwork in California, at a modelled elevation of 392 m. Burnt Peak stands 1,761 m to the north, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Paul Walker Memorial, a historic site 0.7 miles away.
Artist Eric Powell designed custom laser-cut steel gates, based on a bird’s eye view of the neighborhood street layouts. Maps are crucial and essential part of successful firefighting.
What the record says
- Built
- 2011
- Material
- stainless_steel
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Paul Walker Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Dry Canyon Reservoir water outlet structure: 3.0 mi
- Hagop "Jake" Kuredjian Memorial: 5.0 mi
- Fritz' Grave: 5.9 mi
- Pico No. 4: 6.8 mi
- Cheseborough Park: 1.1 mi
- Valencia Heritage Park: 1.5 mi
- Santa Clarita Park: 1.8 mi
- Marketplace Park: 1.9 mi
- Bridgeport Park: 2.1 mi
- Tornado: 2.4 mi
- Black Snake Summit: 2.5 mi
- Bonzai Pipelines: 2.5 mi
- Taboo Tower: 2.5 mi
- Forgotten Sea: 2.5 mi
- Tapia Canyon Open Space: 2.7 mi
- Haskell Canyon Open Space: 3.9 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 5.5 mi
- Laing-Brookfield Open Space: 5.6 mi
- BLM Open Space: 5.6 mi
- Sand Rock Peak: 6.3 mi
- Loma Verde: 6.5 mi
- Towsley Peak: 6.9 mi
- Cruzan Mesa: 7.2 mi
- Manzanita Mountain: 7.9 mi
- Communitree: 6.8 mi
- Canyon Dreamscape: 11.2 mi
- Construction UCLA: 11.2 mi
- Dos Picos: 12.6 mi
- Tiki: 12.8 mi
- Los Pinetos Spring: 9.4 mi
- Ruby Spring: 10.4 mi
- Plum Spring: 10.8 mi
- Juan Fernandez Spring: 11.4 mi
- Whisky Spring: 11.8 mi
- Sustainable Landscape Demonstration Garden: 2.1 mi
- Central Park Gardens: 2.8 mi
- Meditation Garden: 3.3 mi
- Butterfly Knoll: 4.1 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 6.5 mi
- William S. Hart Ranch House: 5.8 mi
- Bunkhouse: 5.9 mi
- Pardee House: 5.9 mi
- William S. Hart Museum: 5.9 mi
- Heritage Junction Historic Park: 6.0 mi
- Paradise Picnic Pavilion: 2.5 mi
- Ducks Delight: 4.5 mi
- Timberland: 4.6 mi
- Duck Pond: 4.6 mi
- Whistling Pines: 4.7 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 11.2 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 11.2 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 11.4 mi
- Whitney Canyon Waterfalls: 7.8 mi
- Trail Canyon Falls: 20.0 mi
- Mentryville: 5.7 mi
- Coba Arch: 21.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.0 miles of Maps and Maping: The Firefighter's Life Line. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burnt Peak | N 358° | 1,761 m | 15.8 mi |
| Liebre Mountain | NNW 343° | 1,758 m | 19.0 mi |
| Sawmill Mountain | N 1° | 1,672 m | 16.6 mi |
| Little Burnt Peak | N 358° | 1,660 m | 16.3 mi |
| Sawtooth Mountain | N 3° | 1,577 m | 14.3 mi |
| Mount McDill | ENE 65° | 1,576 m | 18.3 mi |
| Whiteacre Peak | WNW 289° | 1,536 m | 18.5 mi |
| Dome Mountain | NW 312° | 1,502 m | 18.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:33 | 20:11 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 06:58 | 16:10 | 16:49 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 55 | 55 | 59 | 61 | 67 | 72 | 79 | 80 | 77 | 69 | 60 | 53 |
| Precip in | 4.2 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newhall 5NW, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/11887473045
Day trips start here
- Magic Mountain · 3 mi
- Castaic · 4 mi
- Santa Clarita · 4 mi
- Valencia · 4 mi
- Santa Clarita Valley · 5 mi
- Chatsworth · 14 mi
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