Mount Goddard

Mount Goddard
Mt. Goddard from the south (G.K. Gilbert,1904).
Elevation	13,564 ft (4,134 m) NAVD 88[1]
Prominence	1,568 ft (478 m) [2]
Parent peak	Mount Darwin [3]
Listing	SPS Emblem peak [4]
Location
Mount Goddard Location in California
Location	Kings Canyon National Park, Fresno County, California, USA
Range	Sierra Nevada
Coordinates	37°06′11.22″N 118°43′11.65″W / 37.1031167°N 118.7199028°W / 37.1031167; -118.7199028Coordinates: 37°06′11.22″N 118°43′11.65″W / 37.1031167°N 118.7199028°W / 37.1031167; -118.7199028[1]
Topo map	USGS Mount Goddard
Climbing
First ascent	September 23, 1879 by Lilbourne A. Winchell and Louis W. Davis [5]
Easiest route	Scramble, class 2 by Starr's Route or the East Slope [6]

Mount Goddard is a mountain of California's Sierra Nevada, in the north section of Kings Canyon National Park. Goddard forms the southwest boundary of the Evolution Basin.

The peak is named for civil engineer George Henry Goddard, who surveyed the Sierra Nevada during the 1850s. The name was given by William Brewer's California Geological Survey party in 1864, during which year they made two unsuccessful attempts to climb the mountain.^[5]

Fifteen years later, Lilbourne Winchell and Louis Davis completed the first recorded ascent on September 23, 1879. They scrambled up class 2 rock from the east side of Martha Lake to Goddard Col, and a lake and chute beyond. From here they attained the summit by way of the Southwest Ridge, and a short class 3 ridge between the two summits of Mount Goddard.^[6]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Goddard". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=HR2630. Retrieved 2008-06-21. 
2. ^ "Mount Goddard, California". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2708. Retrieved 2009-01-18. 
3. ^ "Whitney IV. P1000s, California Mountain Atlas". Peaklist.org. http://www.PeakList.org/CAmtnatlas/P1000/tables/Whitney4.html. Retrieved 2009-01-18. 
4. ^ "Sierra Peaks Section List". Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/spslist.pdf. Retrieved 2009-01-18. 
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/g.html. Retrieved 2009-01-18. 
6. ^ ^{a b} Secor, R.J.. The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes and Trails (2nd ed.). Seattle: The Mountaineers Books. pp. 275–276. ISBN 0-89886-625-1. 

External links

• "Mount Goddard". SummitPost.org. http://www.summitpost.org/page/151731. 
• "Mount Goddard". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:260631. Retrieved 2009-06-22.