Mount Mills (California)

Mount Mills

Mount Mills is the peak on the right, taken from southern end of Little Lakes Valley
Elevation 13,451 ft (4,100 m) [1]
Prominence 451 ft (137 m) [1]
Location
Mount Mills
Location of Mount Mills in California
Location Fresno and Inyo counties, California, USA
Range Sierra Nevada
Coordinates [2]
Topo map USGS Mount Abbot

Mount Mills is a Thirteener and California 4000 meter peak on the Sierra Crest north of Mount Abbot and south of Mono Pass on the Inyo – Fresno county line. The Mono Recesses are to the west.

The summit is named in honor of Darius Ogden Mills, a banker and founder of the city of Millbrae, California and the Carson and Colorado Railroad. The name appeared on the first edition of the Mt Goddard topographic map in 1912.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Mount Mills, California". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2664. Retrieved 2010-10-07. 
  2. ^ "Mount Mills". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:263654. Retrieved 2010-10-07. 
  3. ^ Browning, Peter (1986). Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley: Wilderness Press. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-89997-119-3.