List of California fourteeners

In mountaineering in the United States, a fourteener is a mountain that exceeds 14,000 feet (4,267.2 m) above mean sea level. (This term is not usually significant outside the U.S.) This is a complete list of the 12 fourteeners in the U.S. state of California, using a 300 ft (91.44 m) topographic prominence cutoff. The main fourteener article has a list of all of the fourteeners in the United States, as well as references, more information about how the list is determined, and caveats about accuracy.

Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a precise mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface. Topographic prominence is the elevation difference between the summit and the highest or key col to a higher summit. Topographic isolation is the minimum great circle distance to a point of higher elevation.

All elevations in the following table include an elevation adjustment from the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). For further information, please see this United States National Geodetic Survey note. If a summit elevation or prominence has a range of values, the arithmetic mean is cited.

Table

Note: Although the mean prominence (using interpolation between contours) of Mt. Muir is indeed 101 m (331 ft), its true prominence is likely to be less than 300 feet. The level 2 Digital Elevation Model for the Mt. Whitney region suggests that Mt. Muir's prominence is only 90 m (295 ft). A field measurement conducted on 22 July 2000 in clear, stable weather using several independent barometric altimeters yielded a prominence of 276(+/-20) feet.^[37]

For the 16 California summits with at least 4,000 meters (13,123.4 ft) of topographic elevation and at least 500 meters (1,640.4 ft) of topographic prominence, see the major 4000 meter summits of California.

See also

• Outline of California
• Index of California-related articles
• State of California
  • Geography of California
    • Category:Mountains of California
      • commons:Category:Mountains of California
• Physical geography
  • Topography
    • Topographic elevation
    • Topographic isolation
    • Topographic prominence
    • Topographic summit
• Lists of mountains by region
  • List of mountains of the United States
    • List of mountains of California
• Mountain peaks of North America
  • Mountain peaks of the United States
    • The 180 highest major mountain peaks of the United States
    • The 104 major 4000 meter mountain peaks of the United States
    • The 88 fourteeners of the United States
    • Mountain peaks of Alaska
      • The 51 highest major mountain peaks of Alaska
      • The 23 major 4000 meter mountain peaks of Alaska
    • Mountain peaks of California
      • The 25 highest major mountain peaks of California
      • The 16 major 4000 meter mountain peaks of California
      • The 12 California fourteeners
    • Mountain peaks of Colorado
      • The 100 highest major mountain peaks of Colorado
      • The 55 major 4000 meter mountain peaks of Colorado
      • The 53 Colorado fourteeners
    • Mountain peaks of Hawaii

References

External links

• MapDEX - California 14ers
• Summitpost.com
• VRMC California Thirteeners
• VRMC California Fourteeners