Mount Clark (California)
| Mount Clark | |
|---|---|
 West face from Glacier Point Road, January 2008. | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 11,527 ft (3,513 m) NAVD 88[1] |
| Prominence | 722 ft (220 m)[1] |
| Parent peak | Chip Peak[2] |
| Listing | |
| Coordinates | 37°41′47″N 119°25′43″W / 37.6963183°N 119.4284859°W[5] |
| Geography | |
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| Location | Yosemite National Park Mariposa County, California, U.S. |
| Parent range | Clark Range, Sierra Nevada |
| Topo map | USGS Merced Peak |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 1866 by Clarence King and James T. Gardiner[6] |
| Easiest route | Rock climb, class 4[7] |
Mount Clark is a 11,527-foot (3,513 m) granite peak in the Clark Range, a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada. It is a popular destination for mountaineers.
Both the mountain and the range are named in honor of Galen Clark, an early explorer and the first guardian of Yosemite National Park.[8] Before it received its present name, it was known as Gothic Peak and then The Obelisk, the name used by the Whitney Survey.[9] Obelisk Lake, at 9,853 feet (3,003 m) lies on the mountain's northeast flank.
References
- ^ a b "Mount Clark". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2011-05-05.
- ^ "Mount Clark". ListsOfJohn.com. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
- ^ "Sierra Peaks Section List" (PDF). Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ "Western States Climbers Qualifying Peak List". Climber.org. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
- ^ "Mount Clark". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ Farquhar, Francis P. (1926). Place Names of the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club.
- ^ Secor, R.J. (2009). The High Sierra Peaks, Passes, and Trails (3rd ed.). Seattle: The Mountaineers. pp. 409–411. ISBN 978-0898869712.
- ^ Browning, Peter (2005). Yosemite Place Names: The Historic Background of Geographic Names in Yosemite National Park. Great West Books. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-944220-19-1.
- ^ Browning, Peter (1986). Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley: Wilderness Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-89997-119-3.
External links
- "Mount Clark". SummitPost.org.
- "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada by Clarence King, Chapter IX - Merced Ramblings 1866". Yosemite Online Library.
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