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ABBOT, MOUNT (13,736) | [Mount Goddard] |
Henry Larcom. Abbot, born in Massachusetts, 1831; still living in Cambridge, Mass., 1925; graduated U. S. Military Academy, second lieutenant, 1854; captain, 1862; major, 1865; lieutenant-colonel, 1880; colonel, 1886; major-general of volunteers, 1865; retired, 1895; brigadier-general, retired, 1904; LL.D., Harvard, 1886; joint author, with Captain Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, of the classic Report on the Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River, 1861; member of the Williamson party of the Pacific Railroad Surveys in California and Oregon, 1855. First ascent by Joseph N. Le Conte, James S. Hutchinson, Duncan McDuffie, July 13, 1908. (S.C.B., 1909, VII:1, p. 13.) Second ascent 1922, by William H. Staniels and party. (California Alpine Club Trails, 1922, II:1, pp. 57-58.)
ACKER PEAK (10,918) | [Dardanelles] |
AGASSIZ NEEDLE (13,882) | [Mount Goddard] |
AGNEW MEADOW, PASS, LAKE | [Mount Lyell] |
AHART MEADOW | [Kaiser] |
AHWAHNEE | [Yosemite] |
“The valley has always been known to them, and is to this day, when speaking among themselves, as A-wa'ni. This, it is true, is only the name of one of the ancient villages which it contained; but by prominence it gave its name to the valley, and, in accordance with Indian usage almost everywhere, to the inhabitants of the same.” (Powers: Tribes of California, in Contributions to North American Ethnology, III, 1877, p. 361.)
[Editor’s note: For the origin of the word Ahwahnee see “Origin of the Word Yosemite.”—DEA]
ALGER LAKE | [Mount Lyell] |
ALTA MEADOW, PEAK (11,211) | [Tehipite] |
“It is suggested that ‘Alta Peak’ be substituted as a name for what is denominated Tharp’s Peak on the present club map. It is a most conspicuous crag eastward from the Giant Forest as seen from Three Rivers. We climbed it in 1896, when, so far as we knew, it had no name. The name Alta Peak then given from the long-named Alta Meadow on its slope, has been almost universally adopted by the Three Rivers people and the frequenters of Giant Forest.” (William R. Dudley, in S.C.B., 1903, IV:4, pp. 306-307.)
A prominent crag, forming part of Alta Peak, has since been known as Tharps Rock.
AMPHITHEATER LAKE | [Mount Goddard] |
AMPHITHEATER LAKE | [Kaweah] |
ARMY PASS | [Olancha] |
ARNDT LAKE | [Dardanelles] |
Arndt crossed from Slide Cañon to Tiltill Valley in September, 1893, and found a route from Matterhorn Cañon to Hetch Hetchy Valley. (S.C.B., 1895, I:5, p. 168.)
ARNOLD MEADOW | [Kaiser] |
ARROW PEAK (12,927) | [Mount Whitney] |
ATWELLS MILL | [Kaweah] |
“The Atwell mill has started again, and is fast denuding that vicinity of a most beautiful grove of sequoias. The property is leased for three years yet, and the rent is a certain percentage on the lumber actually cut, really setting a premium on the death of the big trees; and for what purpose? Only to make shingles, posts, and flume boards! This estate should be acquired by the Government at once, and thus save this most beautiful sequoia grove.” (Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Sequoia and General Grant National Parks, 1899, [Henry B. Clark, 2nd Lt., 3rd Artillery, U.S.A., p. 7.)
AVALANCHE PEAK (10,085) | [Tehipite] |
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