MT. WATERMAN IN WINTER - 1989

To experience the snow, our family visits the Mt. Waterman Ski Resort in January 1989. The kids love playing and sliding on the snow. Southern California is blessed with excellent vacation spots. There is the Pacific Ocean with its beautiful beaches on the Western side and snow on the mountains in the Eastern side.
Mount Waterman is a ski area on Waterman Mountain in the San Gabriel Mountains of the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California. The area is located on California State Route 2, the Angeles Crest Highway, and reaches a height of 8,030 ft (2,450 m) with an overall vertical drop of 1,030 ft (310 m). A large tract of land in the San Gabriel Mountains was leased from the United States Forest Service in 1888 to master trailblazer and cabin builder Louis Newcomb.
Robert B. Waterman was a pioneer mountain man and a ranger in the San Gabriel Forest Reserve. Waterman, together with his wife Liz and their friend Perry Switzer, completed a three-week hike from La Cañada to the Antelope Valley and back in May 1889. With this epic feat, Liz became the first white (non Indigenous) woman known to have crossed the San Gabriels.
Along the way, she placed a cairn on this summit, and christened it "Lady Waterman's Peak". However, attitudes toward women at the time led to this name being considered inappropriate. The peak was subsequently referred to by different names, all of which left out the "Lady". To his credit, Robert Waterman made numerous, futile efforts to have the full name restored.
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