Mount Abbot
Appearance
Mount Abbot | |
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![]() Mount Abbot, showing the north couloir. Petit Griffon is the gendarme on the right. | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 13,710 ft (4,180 m) NAVD 88[1] |
Prominence | 864 ft (263 m)[1] |
Listing | |
Coordinates | 37°23′11″N 118°47′05″W / 37.386324°N 118.7848432°W[4] |
Geography | |
Location | Fresno / Inyo counties, California, U.S. |
Parent range | Sierra Nevada |
Topo map | USGS Mount Abbot |
Climbing | |
First ascent | July 13, 1908 by Joseph N. Le Conte, James S. Hutchinson & Duncan McDuffie[5] |
Easiest route | Exposed scramble, class 3[2] |
Mount Abbot is a mountain in California's Sierra Nevada, in the John Muir Wilderness.[6] It is located between Mount Mills and Mount Dade along the Sierra Crest and straddles the border between Fresno and Inyo counties.
The peak was named for Henry Larcom Abbot who, in 1855, was a member of the Williamson party of the Pacific Railroad Surveys in California and Oregon.[5][7] He retired from the United States Army as a brigadier general in 1904.[5]
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See also
References
- ^ a b "Mount Abbot, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
- ^ a b "Sierra Peaks Section List" (PDF). Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
- ^ "Western States Climbers Qualifying Peak List". Retrieved 2016-03-24.
- ^ "Mount Abbot". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
- ^ a b c Farquhar, Francis P. (1926). Place Names of the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
- ^ "Mount Abbot". SummitPost.org. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
- ^ Erwin G. Gudde; William Bright (10 May 2004). California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. University of California Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-520-24217-3. Retrieved 2012-04-01.