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Hi Guys
I used to have a great picture on my computer (cannot find it) of the snow Chute that is to the "right" of the switchbacks. Do you guys have any that you can post here???

I'll post one later today with my TR.

Thanks Bob. I am excited to see.

Bytheway, I saw on a map Mt Pickering, about 3 miles west of Langley.

Named after a relative or ancestor???

I don't know how Mt. Pickering got its name, but I've been there twice.

Here is a photo from January 28:

Named by the Sierra Club for Edward Charles Pickering, 1846-1919, astronomer. (US-T121)
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:1272518174420931::NO::P3_FID:264700

After clicking on that link for the USGS it seems like "way back when" it was easy to name some of these peaks, just think up a name, send it in, and there you go. Probably there were so many un-named ones around that no one really thought too much about it, especially the ones that were lesser in elevation. It's also curious that so many of the peaks are named for individuals and that those are probably all named for men. I can't think offhand of any named for women...

Mt Mary Austin

amelia earhart

That's all ya got? 2 ?

Mt Alice, 11,630' The name was originally given to what is now called Temple Crag 12,999' which is 2 miles to the southwest.

Mt Anna Mills, 12,064' (Anna Mills Johnston) One of the lst 4 women to climb Whitney in 1878.

The pair: Charybdis 13,096' and Scylla 12,956'

I bet George Durkee can quickly name many & not have to use the book I used: Place Names of the Sierra Nevada by Peter Browning which has alot more Mts named for Women

CMC:

I have an embarrassingly bad memory for peak names. But it's an interesting question on peaks named after women. Running through a bunch in my spotty memory, then just checking maps, it looks like the peaks go to the guys (great catch on Scylla & Charybdis!) and lakes to the girls (Charlotte, Rae, May Lake, Marjorie, Helen, Wanda, Marion etc.). Of course, Lucy's Foot Pass is named after the legendary Lucy Brown, wife of Bolton Coit Brown after an epic climb of Williamson and attempt on Tyndall. (I think Bolton introduced the first fish into Rae Lakes Basin from Bullfrog Lake). And Milly's Foot next to it (can't remember story).

Someone should do a bio or article on Lucy Brown - she was pretty gnarly, camped for several years with Bolton and their child and would go off on long hikes while he took care of the kid. Great story.

But the manly men were the first European explorers with the Whitney Survey of the 1860s; then followed by Sierra Club types. The questions is are there ANY peaks named after women in that period? Later, yes but I can't offhand think of any named after a woman pre-1900 (when was Mt. Anna Mills named?). True, Solomons named Scylla & Charybdis in the 1890s, but I'm not sure that counts... .

These guys did, though, name lakes after their wives, girlfriends etc.

g.

According to Peter Browning's book: Leonard Daughenbaugh suggested the name Mt Anna Mills in 1984 and it was approved by the BGN in 1985. (assume this is US Board on Geographic Names)

Again from the Browning book: Milly's Foot Pass (12,240'+) was lst crossed in July 1953(I would have guessed long before that year) by Mildred Jentsch and Sylvia Kershaw. ( I wonder if Sylvia lost a coin toss regarding naming rights)

Lucy Brown and Professor Brown from Stanford University were of interest to me since I went to Stanford and was finally able to climb Mt Stanford (S) in 2007. The Browns and their infant daughter, Eleanor, spent many summers in the Sierras. According to Brown's diaries, Eleanor traveled almost exclusively by burro and lived on malted milk, chocolate and fresh trout. I believe that when they lst went through Lucy's Foot Path in 1896, the burro also made the crossing, thus showing that stock could use this foot path.

I think some of you might enjoy the Peter Browning book as a resource book. "Place Names of the Sierra Nevada from Abbot to Zumwalt". lst recommended to me by Bob R so you know it has to be good !!

Peggotty, the mule, was left behind at East Lake and was one of the reasons they bailed on doing Tyndall -- fearful the little patch of grass he was tied up in was underwater with the rains... .

LeConte got a mule (burro??) over Harrison, but I'm pretty sure stock has never crossed Lucy's.

More fun: Brown was supposedly fired from Standford when Leland Standford's wife was touring classes and came upon his class using nude models: shock! Horror!!

The sketches from his trips are great and I think he's left some of the best descriptions of routes and terrain of any of those early writers of the Sierra.

You can find several of his trips in Google Books for Sierra Club Bulletins. They have #1 and #3 scanned. His Williamson trip is unfortunately in #2, which I'm unable to find online (which is strange, because Google was obviously scanning an entire set from the Standford library).

Anyway, if you can find the account: Wanderings in the High Sierra between Mt. King and Mt. Williamson by Brown (SCB Vol II No. 1, 1897) it's great.


g.

Google Books has at least Vol. 1 thru 10 now, but the titling in the collection is not always consistent and the libraries of origin vary. The Volume 2 I downloaded came from the Harvard library. There are often multiple copies of documents under slightly different titles scanned from different libraries in Google Books.

Dale B. Dalrymple
http://dbdimages.com

Let us not forget Molly's Nipple in Utah

I'm stretching here, but every surface feature on Venus is named after a woman (mostly goddesses), except for the largest mountain range, named after Maxwell Montes, sometimes referred to as the only man on Venus.

Closer to home, there is Melissa Coray Peak in Utah, named after a hearty Mormon pioneer woman who walked over 2,000 miles to San Diego and then most of the way back to Salt Lake.

Brent N

And then there are the Grand Tetons . . .

Since you broke the ice I will add a famous one here in Colorado. Iron Nipple (now listed as 13,500'+ Once listed as 13,800'+) is on a connecting ridge NW of Mt Lindsey 14,042' in the Huerfano Valley.

I recall the name but not the location: Nellies Nipple in the Sierras.

Finally how about the Grand Tetons.

No fair Gary, I was previewing my Post and you aced me out.

Also in Southern Colorado near La Veta are the Spanish Peaks. The Western Spanish Peak is 13,600'+ while the Eastern Spanish Peak is 12,700'+
Native Americans called the pair the Wajatoya, breasts of the world.

Changing subjects just a little, how about the Painted Lady near Rae Lakes.