- Mount McAdie
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Mount McAdie Sequoia National Park / John Muir Wilderness, California, USA
Mount McAdieElevation 13,799 ft (4,206 m) NGVD 29[1] Prominence 479 ft (146 m) [1] Parent peak Mount Whitney [2] Listing SPS Mountaineer's peak [3] Location Range Sierra Nevada Coordinates 36°33′02″N 118°16′36″W / 36.5504909°N 118.2767566°WCoordinates: 36°33′02″N 118°16′36″W / 36.5504909°N 118.2767566°W[4] Topo map USGS Mount Whitney Climbing First ascent 1922 by Norman Clyde [5] Easiest route Scramble, class 3 Mount McAdie is summit on the crest of the Sierra Nevada and is located 2.1 miles (3.4 km) south of Mount Whitney. It has three summits with the north peak being the highest. The summit ridge marks the boundary between Sequoia National Park and the John Muir Wilderness. It is also on the boundary between Inyo and Tulare counties. Lone Pine, 12.4 miles (20.0 km) to the northeast, is in the Owens Valley on U.S. 395.
In 1905, the mountain was named in honor of Alexander G. McAdie by James E. Church. McAdie ran the U.S. Weather Bureau in San Francisco at the time,[6] and had visited the summit of Mount Whitney in 1903.[7] The name first appeared on a map in 1956 with the publication of the USGS, 15 minute, Mount Whitney Quadrangle topographic map.[6]
The north summit can be reached from Arc Pass and was first climbed by Norman Clyde in 1922. The west face was first climbed in 1954 and is a class 4 ascent.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Mount McAdie". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2837.
- ^ "Mount Whitney". PeakList.org. http://www.peaklist.org/CAmtnatlas/tables/whitney/whitney.html.
- ^ "Sierra Peaks Section List". Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/spslist.pdf.
- ^ "Mount McAdie". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1659080.
- ^ a b Secor, R. J. (1999). The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes and Trails (2nd ed.). Seattle: The Mountaineers Books. pp. 45–46. ISBN 0898866251.
- ^ a b Browning, Peter (1986). Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkley: Wilderness Press. pp. 140–141. ISBN 0899971199.
- ^ Farquhar, Francis P (1965). History of the High Sierra. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 182. ISBN 0520015517.
External links
- "Mount McAdie". SummitPost.org. http://www.summitpost.org/page/151986.
Categories:- Inyo National Forest
- Mountains of Sequoia National Park
- Mountains of the John Muir Wilderness
- Mountains of Inyo County, California
- Mountains of Tulare County, California
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