Mount Crocker

Coordinates: 37°28′59″N 118°49′31″W / 37.4829291°N 118.8253923°W / 37.4829291; -118.8253923
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For the Mount Crocker in Australia, see Comet, Queensland.
Mount Crocker
North aspect, summit to right
Highest point
Elevation12,458 ft (3,797 m)[1][2]
Prominence858 ft (262 m)[2]
Parent peakRed and White Mountain[3]
Isolation1.77 mi (2.85 km)[3]
ListingVagmarken Club Sierra Crest List[4]
Coordinates37°28′59″N 118°49′31″W / 37.4829291°N 118.8253923°W / 37.4829291; -118.8253923[5]
Naming
EtymologyCharles Crocker
Geography
Mount Crocker is located in California
Mount Crocker
Mount Crocker
Location in California
Mount Crocker is located in the United States
Mount Crocker
Mount Crocker
Mount Crocker (the United States)
Location
class 3[3]

Mount Crocker is a remote 12,458-foot-elevation (3,797 meter) mountain

Topographic relief is significant as the north aspect rises 2,500 feet (760 meters) above McGee Creek in approximately one mile. It is nine miles northeast of Lake Thomas A Edison, and approximately 15 miles (24 km) southeast of the community of Mammoth Lakes
.

History

Charles Crocker

This mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1911 by the

The Big Four), who formed the Central Pacific Railroad. Mount Crocker is one of four peaks named after the Big Four that surrounds Pioneer Basin, the others being Mount Hopkins, Mount Huntington, and Mount Stanford
.

The first ascent of the summit was made August 25, 1929, by Nazario Sparrea, a Basque shepherd.[8]

Climate

According to the

snowfall onto the range. Precipitation runoff from the north side of this mountain drains into McGee Creek which empties at Crowley Lake, and from the south aspect to Lake Thomas A Edison via Mono Creek, thence South Fork San Joaquin River
.

Mt. Crocker from north, McGee Creek drainage

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9780899970479
    , page 50.
  2. ^ a b c "Mount Crocker, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  3. ^ a b c d "Crocker, Mount - 12,458' CA". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  4. ^ "Vagmarken Sierra Crest List". Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  5. ^ a b c "Mount Crocker". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  6. ISBN 9780520266193
    , page 96.
  7. ^ Francis P. Farquhar, Place Names of the High Sierra (1926)
  8. ^ George Bloom and John D. Mendenhall, A Climber’s Guide to the High Sierra (1954)
  9. ^ "Climate of the Sierra Nevada". Encyclopædia Britannica.

External links

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