Mount Cotter

Mount Cotter
Mount Cotter
Location in California
Elevation 12,713 ft (3,875 m) NGVD 29 [1]
Prominence 542 ft (165 m) [1]
Parent peak Mount Clarence King [2]
Listing SPS peak [3]
Location
Location Kings Canyon National Park, Fresno County, California, USA
Range Sierra Nevada
Coordinates [4]
Topo map USGS Mount Clarence King
Climbing
First ascent 1922 by Bob Fitzsimmons by the Southeast Slope [5]
Easiest route Southeast Slope, scramble, class 3 [5]

Mount Cotter, located in the Kings Canyon National Park, is named for Dick Cotter who was a packer with the California Geological Survey in 1864. Cotter and Clarence King made the first ascent of Mount Tyndall.[6] The Mountain has an elevation of 12,713 feet (3,875 m).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Mount Cotter, California". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=13532. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
  2. ^ "Mount Whitney - California Mountain Atlas". Peaklist.org. http://www.PeakList.org/CAmtnatlas/tables/whitney/whitney.html. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
  3. ^ "Sierra Peaks Section List". Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/spslist.pdf. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
  4. ^ "Mount Cotter". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:258753. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
  5. ^ a b Secor, R. J. (1999). The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes, and Trails (2nd ed.). Seattle: The Mountaineers Books. pp. 161–162. ISBN 0-89886-625-1. 
  6. ^ Browning, Peter (1986). Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkley: Wilderness Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-89997-119-3. 

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