Mount Clark (California)

Mount Clark
West face from Glacier Point Road, January 2008.
Elevation	11,527 ft (3,513 m) [1][2]
Prominence	722 ft (220 m) [2]
Parent peak	Gray Peak[3]
Listing	SPS Mountaineer's peak[4]
Location
Location	Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California, USA
Range	Clark Range
Coordinates	37°41′47″N 119°25′43″W / 37.6963183°N 119.4284859°W / 37.6963183; -119.4284859Coordinates: 37°41′47″N 119°25′43″W / 37.6963183°N 119.4284859°W / 37.6963183; -119.4284859[5]
Topo map	USGS Merced Peak
Climbing
First ascent	1866 by Clarence King and James T. Gardiner[6]
Easiest route	Rock climb, class 4[7]

Mount Clark is an 11,527 feet (3,513 m) tall granite peak in the Clark Range. It is a popular destination for mountaineering.

It is named for Galen Clark, an early explorer and the first guardian of Yosemite National Park. The Clark Range, also named for Galen Clark, is a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada. Before it was given its present name, it was known as Gothic Peak and then The Obelisk, the name used by the Whitney Survey.^[8] Obelisk Lake, at 9,853 feet (3,003 m) lies on the mountain's northeast flank.

References

1. ^ The NGVD 29 elevation of 11,522 feet was converted using VERTCON to the NAVD 88 elevation of 11,527 feet.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Mount Clark". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2638. Retrieved 2011-05-05. 
3. ^ "Mount Clark". LoJ.com. http://listsofjohn.com/PeakStats/Climbers.php?Id=56062. Retrieved 2011-05-31. 
4. ^ "Sierra Peaks Section List". Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/spslist.pdf. Retrieved 2009-08-09. 
5. ^ "Mount Clark". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:254748. Retrieved 2009-08-09. 
6. ^ 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/c.html. 
7. ^ Secor, R.J. (1999). The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes and Trails (2nd ed.). Seattle: The Mountaineers Books. pp. 388–390. ISBN 0-89886-625-1. 
8. ^ Browning, Peter (1986). Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkley: Wilderness Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-89997-119-3. 

External links

• "Mount Clark". SummitPost.org. http://www.summitpost.org/page/150527. Retrieved 2008-01-27. 
• "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada by Clarence King, Chapter IX - Merced Ramblings 1866". Yosemite Online Library. http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/mountaineering_in_the_sierra_nevada/09.html#page_244. Retrieved 2011-01-23.