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Mount_Crocker Latitude and Longitude:

37°28′59″N 118°49′31″W / 37.4829291°N 118.8253923°W / 37.4829291; -118.8253923
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Mount Crocker
North aspect, summit to right
Highest point
Elevation12,458 ft (3,797 m) [1] [2]
Prominence858 ft (262 m) [2]
Parent peak Red and White Mountain [3]
Isolation1.77 mi (2.85 km) [3]
ListingVagmarken Club Sierra Crest List [4]
Coordinates 37°28′59″N 118°49′31″W / 37.4829291°N 118.8253923°W / 37.4829291; -118.8253923 [5]
Naming
Etymology Charles 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 Fresno County / Mono County
California, U.S.
Parent range Sierra Nevada [2]
Topo map USGS Mount Abbot
Geology
Age of rock Cretaceous
Mountain type Fault block
Type of rock Granodiorite
Climbing
First ascent1929
Easiest route class 3 [3]

Mount Crocker is a remote 12,458-foot-elevation (3,797 meter) mountain summit located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in northern California, United States. [5] It is situated in the John Muir Wilderness, on the boundary shared by Sierra National Forest with Inyo National Forest, and along the common border of Fresno County with Mono County. Crocker ranks as the 291st-highest summit in California. [3] 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 U.S. Board on Geographic Names. [5] The name was applied during a 1907–09 survey by Robert Bradford Marshall of the USGS to honor Charles Crocker (1822–1888), an American railroad executive who was one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed the westernmost portion of the First transcontinental railroad. [6] [7] He was one of the four principal investors, along with Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington and Leland Stanford (also known as 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 Köppen climate classification system, Mount Crocker is located in an alpine climate zone. [9] Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Sierra Nevada mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks ( orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or 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. ^ Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada: From Abbot to Zumwalt, Wilderness Press, 1986, 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. ^ Erwin G. Gudde, California Place Names, University of California Press, 1969, 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.

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