Mount Tom (California)

Mount Tom
Mount Tom in winter
Elevation	13,658 ft (4,163 m) [1][2]
Prominence	1,972 ft (601 m)
Parent peak	Mount Humphreys[3]
Location
Location	Inyo County, California, USA
Range	Sierra Nevada
Coordinates	37°20′19″N 118°39′30″W / 37.3385441°N 118.6584507°W / 37.3385441; -118.6584507Coordinates: 37°20′19″N 118°39′30″W / 37.3385441°N 118.6584507°W / 37.3385441; -118.6584507[4]
Topo map	USGS Mount Tom
Climbing
First ascent	1860s, Thomas Clark[5]
Easiest route	Scramble, class 2[6]

Mount Tom a large and prominent peak near Bishop in Inyo County of eastern California. It is in the Sierra Nevada and east of the Sierra Crest.

Along with its neighbor to the south, Basin Mountain, it dominates the western skyline from the upper Owens Valley.

History

The mountain is named for Thomas Clark, a resident of the pioneer town of Owensville, who is credited with being the first to ascend the peak in the 1860s.^[5] Mount Tom and Mount Morgan were part of the Pine Creek mining operation which was important producer of tungsten for much of the 20th century although the scheelite ore deposits are now largely depleted and mines have closed.

See also

• California 4000 meter peaks
• Mountain peaks of California
• Mountain peaks of North America
• Mountain peaks of the United States
• Thirteener

References

1. ^ The NGVD 29 elevation of 13,652 feet was converted using VERTCON to the NAVD 88 elevation of 13,658 feet.
2. ^ "Mount Tom, California". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2673. Retrieved 2009-12-30. 
3. ^ "Whitney IV. P1000s, California Mountain Atlas". Peaklist.org. http://www.peaklist.org/CAmtnatlas/P1000/tables/Whitney4.html. Retrieved 2009-01-18. 
4. ^ "Mount Tom". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:268340. Retrieved 2009-12-30. 
5. ^ ^{a b} 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/t.html. Retrieved 2009-12-30. 
6. ^ Roper, Steve (1976). The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. p. 141. ISBN 0-87156-147-6. 

External links

• "Mount Tom". SummitPost.org. http://www.summitpost.org/page/151260. Retrieved 2011-06-01.