Black Kaweah

Black Kaweah

Black Kaweah is the leftmost peak
Elevation 13,680+ feet (4,170+ m) NGVD 29[1]
Prominence 520 ft (158 m) [1]
Parent peak Red Kaweah [2]
Listing SPS Mountaineers peak [3]
Location
Location Sequoia National Park, Tulare County, California, USA
Range Sierra Nevada, Great Western Divide
Coordinates [4]
Topo map USGS Triple Divide Peak
Climbing
First ascent August 11, 1920 via West Ridge by Duncan McDuffie, Onis Brown, James Hutchinson [5][6]
Easiest route Moderate scramble, class 3 [7]

Black Kaweah is a mountain of the Kaweah Peaks Ridge of the California's Sierra Nevada, in Sequoia National Park. The peak has a local magnetic disturbance that has caused compasses in the vicinity to vary by up to eight degrees.[6] Fulgurites can be found on the peak.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Black Kaweah, California". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2801. Retrieved 2009-01-18. 
  2. ^ "Mount Kaweak - California Mountain Atlas". Peaklist.org. http://www.PeakList.org/CAmtnatlas/tables/whitney/kaweah.html. Retrieved 2008-09-22. 
  3. ^ "Sierra Peaks Section List". Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/spslist.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-29. 
  4. ^ "Black Kaweah". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:254626. Retrieved 2009-01-18. 
  5. ^ 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/k.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. 108–112. ISBN 0-89886-625-1. 
  7. ^ Roper, Steve (1976). The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra. Sierra Club Books. pp. 281–282. ISBN 0-87156-147-6. 
  8. ^ Libby, C.A. (November 1986). "Fulgurite in the Sierra Nevada". California Geology. http://usfcam.usf.edu/CAM/exhibitions/1998_12_McCollum/supplemental_didactics/38.Sierra.pdf. Retrieved 2009-01-24.