Ritter Range

Geobox | Range
name = Ritter Range


image_size = 275px
image_caption = Mount Ritter and Banner Peak
country = United States
state = California
region = Ansel Adams Wilderness
parent = Sierra Nevada
period = Cretaceous
length_imperial = 15
length_orientation = NS
width_imperial = 9
width_orientation = EW
highest = Mount Ritter
highest_elevation_imperial = 13143

The Ritter Range is a small mountain range within California's Sierra Nevada. Most of the mountain range lies within the Ansel Adams Wilderness. The Ritter Range is most easily accessible from Mammoth Lakes, where hiking trails lead to lakes throughout the range. The John Muir Trail passes by many lakes within the Ritter Range. The most prominent peaks of the Ritter Range are Mount Ritter, at 13,143 feet, Banner Peak, at 12,936 feet, and the Minarets, a group of sharp peaks south of Mt. Ritter. Thousand Island Lake, Ediza Lake, Garnet Lake, Lake Catherine, Minaret Lake, Cecile Lake, and Shadow Lake all lie within the Ritter Range, and are accessible by trail.

The range is named for Carl Ritter, who had been a teacher of Josiah Whitney when he was a student in Berlin in the 1840s." [Browning, Peter (1986) "Place Names of the Sierra Nevada." Berkeley: Wildnerness Press. p. 183.]

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