Milestone Mountain

Milestone Mountain
Milestone Mountain, July 1932 (East Side).
Elevation	13,644 ft (4,159 m) NAVD 88[1][2]
Prominence	711 ft (217 m) [2]
Parent peak	Midway Mountain [3]
Listing	SPS Mountaineers peak [4]
Location
Milestone Mountain Location in California
Location	Tulare County, California, USA
Range	Great Western Divide, Sierra Nevada
Coordinates	36°38′05″N 118°29′07″W / 36.6346596°N 118.4853725°W / 36.6346596; -118.4853725Coordinates: 36°38′05″N 118°29′07″W / 36.6346596°N 118.4853725°W / 36.6346596; -118.4853725[5]
Topo map	USGS Mount Brewer
Climbing
First ascent	July 14, 1912 via Southwest Ridge, by William E. Colby, Francis Farquhar and Robert Price.[6]
Easiest route	Southwest Ridge, East Side, or Northwest Face (all class 3 scrambles) [6]

Milestone Mountain is a thirteener on the Great Western Divide,^[2] a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada. The summit marks a point on the boundary between Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. It is 0.6 miles (0.97 km) south of Midway Mountain and 3.8 miles (6.1 km) northeast of Triple Divide Peak. It takes its name from the shape of the obelisk on its peak, and has been called this since at least 1873.^[7]

References

1. ^ The NGVD 29 elevation of 13638 feet was converted to an NAVD 88 elevation.
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Milestone Mountain, California". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2795. Retrieved 2009-09-10. 
3. ^ "Mount Whitney". California Mountain Atlas. Peaklist.org. http://www.peaklist.org/CAmtnatlas/tables/whitney/whitney.html. Retrieved 2009-09-10. 
4. ^ "Sierra Peaks Section List". Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/spslist.pdf. Retrieved 2009-09-10. 
5. ^ "Milestone Mountain". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:228655. Retrieved 2009-09-10. 
6. ^ ^{a b} Secor, R. J. (1999). The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes, and Trails (2nd ed.). Seattle: The Mountaineers. pp. 115–116. ISBN 0-89886-625-1. 
7. ^ 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/m.html. Retrieved 2009-09-10. 

External links

"MileStone Mountain". SummitPost.org. http://www.summitpost.org/page/151284.