Mount Kaweah

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Mount Kaweah

Mount Kaweah from Red Spur, circa 1932
Elevation 13,807 feet (4,208 m) NAVD 88 [1][2]
Prominence 2,027 feet (618 m) [2]
Parent peak Mount Whitney [3]
Listing SPS Emblem peak [4]
Location
Location Tulare County, California, USA
Range Great Western Divide, Sierra Nevada
Coordinates 36°31′34″N 118°28′42″W / 36.5260491°N 118.4784256°W / 36.5260491; -118.4784256Coordinates: 36°31′34″N 118°28′42″W / 36.5260491°N 118.4784256°W / 36.5260491; -118.4784256 [5]
Topo map USGS Triple Divide Peak 36118-E4
Climbing
First ascent September 1881 by Frederick H. Wales, William B. Wallace and James W. A. Wright [6]
Easiest route Hike (class 1) [4]

Mount Kaweah is a mountain in California's Sequoia National Park and forms part of the Kaweah Peaks Ridge, a spur of the Great Western Divide. It has a summit elevation of 13,807 feet (4,208 m), the highest along the Kaweah ridge.

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  1. ^ The National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) elevation of 13,802 feet (4,207 m) has been converted to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88), using the National Geodetic Survey's online vertical conversion tool. "VERTCON Orthometric Height Conversion". National Geodetic Survey website. http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/VERTCON/vert_con.prl. Retrieved 2009-06-21. 
  2. ^ a b "Mount Kaweah, California". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2807. Retrieved 2008-12-29. 
  3. ^ "Mount Kaweah - California Mountain Atlas". Peaklist.org. http://www.peaklist.org/CAmtnatlas/tables/whitney/kaweah.html. Retrieved 2008-09-22. 
  4. ^ a b "Sierra Peaks Section List". Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/spslist.pdf. Retrieved 2008-09-28. 
  5. ^ "Mount Kaweah". Geographic Names Information System. U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:254846. Retrieved 2008-12-29. 
  6. ^ Farquhar, Francis P. (1926). Place Names of the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club. http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/place_names_of_the_high_sierra/k.html. Retrieved 2009-08-10. 

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