- Mount Le Conte (California)
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Mount Le Conte 
Mount Le Conte from Boreal Plateau.Elevation 13,936 ft (4,248 m) [1][2] Prominence 1,003 ft (306 m) [2] Parent peak Mount Muir [2] Listing SPS Mountaineer's peak [3] Location Location Inyo and Tulare counties, California, USA Range Sierra Nevada Coordinates 36°32′27″N 118°15′07″W / 36.5407684°N 118.2520337°WCoordinates: 36°32′27″N 118°15′07″W / 36.5407684°N 118.2520337°W[4] Topo map USGS Mount Whitney Climbing First ascent July 1925 by Norman Clyde [5] Easiest route Scramble with exposure, (class3) [6] Mount Le Conte (or LeConte) is a mountain located in the Sierra Nevada of California. The boundary between Inyo and Tulare counties runs along the crest of the Sierra, across Mount Le Conte. The mountain was named in 1895 for Joseph Le Conte (1823–1901), the first professor of geology and natural history at the University of California.[5]
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Geography
Mount Le Conte is about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southeast of Mount Whitney, and is flanked to the northwest by Mount Mallory, and to the southeast by Mount Corcoran.
The southwest side of Mount Le Conte drains into Rock Creek, thence into the Kern River, which ends in the Central Valley of California. The north side of Mount Le Conte drains into Meysan Creek, thence into Lone Pine Creek, which ends in the Owens Valley. The east side of Le Conte drains into Tuttle Creek, and thence into Diaz Lake in the Owens Valley.
On southwest side is in Sequoia National Park while on the north and east is in the John Muir Wilderness of the Inyo National Forest. The Pacific Crest Trail enters the park from the south at Siberian Pass about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Mount Le Conte, and runs through the park a few miles west of the Sierra Crest.
See also
References
- ^ The NGVD 29 elevation of 13,930 feet was converted using VERTCON to the NAVD 88 elevation of 13,936 feet.
- ^ a b c "Mount LeConte, California". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2839. Retrieved 2011-06-01.
- ^ "Sierra Peaks Section List". Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/spslist.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-29.
- ^ "Mount Le Conte". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:262382. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
- ^ 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/l.html. Retrieved 2007-08-12.
- ^ Roper, Steve (1976). The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. p. 321. ISBN 0-87156-147-6.
External links
- "Mount LeConte". SummitPost.org. http://www.summitpost.org/page/151452. Retrieved 2011-06-01.
Categories:- Mountains of Sequoia National Park
- Mountains of the John Muir Wilderness
- Mountains of Inyo County, California
- Mountains of Tulare County, California
- Inyo County, California geography stubs
- Tulare County, California geography stubs
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