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GABB, MOUNT (13,700) | [Mount Goddard] |
William More Gabb (1839-1878), of Philadelphia, joined the Whitney Survey as paleontologist in 1861. Portrait in S.C.B., 1925, XII:2, plate XLIV.
“The paleontologist was a distinctly loquacious person. One can imagine, then, the laughter of these lean, brown men when Dr. Cooper, the serious, the unbending, announced that he had discovered a new species of the old brachiopod genus, Lingula; and that in honor of his friend William More Gabb he bad bestowed upon it the name of Lingula gabii.” (Brewster: Life and Letters of Josiah Dwight Whitney, 1909, p. 239.)
The Whitney Survey party, led by Professor Brewer, crossed the Sierra from Owens Valley by Mono Pass and descended Mono Creek to the San Joaquin. Camps 188 and 189 were on Mono Creek. The identity of the peak originally named Mount Gabb is obscure. On J. N. Le Conte’s map of 1907 the name was given to the peak most nearly corresponding in position to that on the Whitney Survey map, but this peak has no slate on it.
First ascent by A. L. Jordan and H. H. Bliss, June, 1917. (S.C.B., 1918, X:3, p. 292.)
GABBRO PEAK (11,022) | [Bridgeport] |
GALE PEAK (10,690) | [Mount Lyell] |
GARDINER, MOUNT (12,903) | [Mount Whitney] |
The name is spelled GARDNER on Hoffmann’s map of 1873, in the official Publications of the Whitney Survey, and in the early editions of King’s Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. Nevertheless, in the official catalogue of Yale University, in the obituary notice in American Journal of Sciences (1912), and in Who’s Who in America (1910-1911), and in other reliable Publications, it is spelled Gardiner.
James Terry Gardiner, born in Troy, N. Y., 1842; attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; honorary Ph.B., Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, in 1905, as of 1868; inspector, U. S. Ordnance Corps, 1861-1862; accompanied Clarence King to California, 1863; after a year in construction work on San Francisco Harbor, joined California State Geological Survey (Whitney Survey), 1864, and served until 1867; member of Brewer party in Kings and San Joaquin regions, 1864; with King, made map of Yosemite Valley, 1866-1867; accompanied King on first ascent of Mount Clark, 1866; member Geological Survey of the 40th Parallel (King Survey), 1867-1872; member U. S. Geological Survey of the Territories (Hayden Survey), 1872-1875; director State Survey of New York, 1876-1886; practiced as civil engineer, New York; died at Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1912. (American Journal of Science, 4th series, Vol. 34, October, 1912, p. 404; Who’s Who in America, 1910-1911; Brewster: Life and Letters of Josiah Dwight Whitney, 1909, pp. 236, 237, 306; Appalachia, 1878, I:4, pp. 233-234; Biographical Notice of Clarence King, in Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, vol. 33, 1903.)
First ascent by Joseph N. Le Conte and Bolton Coit Brown, 1896. (S.C.B., 1898, II:3, p. 81.)
GARFIELD GROVE | [Kaweah] |
GAYLOR LAKES | [Mount Lyell] |
GEM LAKE | [Mount Lyell] |
GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL PARK | [Tehipite] |
“The name ‘General Grant National Park’ was adopted for the park by the Secretary, because this name had become, by common consent, that of the largest tree there, and which it is understood is among the greatest if not itself the very greatest of the ‘sequoia gigantea.’ The propriety of adopting the name needs no explanation or defense. The people have already baptized the tree with the name of our great and noble general, and the park could not consistently be called aught else, unless it were ‘The Union’.” (Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, for 1890, p. 125.)
The tree was named in August, 1867, by Mrs. Lucretia P. Baker, of Visalia, for Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885), commander-in-chief of the United States Army, 1864-1869; eighteenth president of the United States. The compliment was acknowledged by General Grant in a letter to Mrs. Baker. (Walter Fry.)
GENERAL SHERMAN TREE | [Tehipite] |
GENEVRA, MOUNT (13,037) | [Mount Whitney] |
Climbed by Norman Clyde, July 15, 1925; probably first ascent. (S.C.B., 1926, XII:3, p. 307.)
GEORGES CREEK | [Mount Whitney] |
GIANT FOREST | [Tehipite] |
Hale D. Tharp was the first white man to visit Giant Forest, 1858. (Walter Fry.)
Lands in Giant Forest and vicinity, patented prior to act of 1890 creating Sequoia National Park, were purchased in 1916 and reconveyed to the United States for $70,000, of which $50,000 was appropriated by act of Congress, July 1, 1916, and $20,000 was contributed from the funds of the National Geographic Society. Subsequent purchases of patented lands were made by the National Geographic Society from funds donated by individuals, and reconveyed to the United States, 1920-1921. (National Geographic Magazine, January, 1917, pp. 1-11; July, 1921, pp. 85-86— Progress in the Development of the National Parks, by Stephen T. Mather, Department of the Interior, 1916, p. 7—Report of the Director of the National Park Service, for 1920, pp. 50, 115; same, for 1921, p. 15.)
GIBBS MOUNTAIN (12,700) | [Mount Lyell] |
The name was given by the Whitney Survey, and, although not mentioned in the Geology volume of 1865, appears on the Hoffmann-Gardiner map, 1867.
GILBERT, MOUNT (13,232) | [Mount Goddard] |
GILLETT MOUNTAIN (8300) | [Dardanelles] |
GILMAN LAKE | [Bridgeport] |
GIRAUD PEAK (12,539) | [Mount Goddard] |
Climbed by Norman Clyde, September 1, 1925; no evidence of prior ascent. (S.C.B., 1926, XII:3, p. 307.)
GLACIER POINT | [Yosemite] |
The precise origin of the name is not given. It does not appear in Hutchings’ earlier publications, nor in the Whitney Survey report of 1865.
GLEN AULIN | [Mount Lyell] |
GLEN PASS | [Mount Whitney] |
GOAT MOUNTAIN, CREST (12,203) | [Tehipite] |
First recorded ascent by J. N. Le Conte and party in 1896. (S.C.B., 1897, II:2, p. 79.)
GODDARD, MOUNT (13,555) | [Mount Goddard] |
Brewer’s party of the Whitney Survey in 1864 made two unsuccessful attempts to reach the summit. (Whitney Survey: Geology, 1865, pp. 392, 394, 398,399.)
“We found the Sierra Club register in the monument on the summit and inscribed our names with those of fifteen others who have made the ascent since September 23, 1879, when, as a small yellow document proclaims, the mountain was first climbed by Lil A. Winchell and Louis W. Davis.” (S.C.B., 190l, III:3, p. 255, notes of a climb of Mount Goddard in 1900 by Harley P. Chandler. See, also, S.C.B., 1922, XI:3, p. 251.)
GOLDEN TROUT CREEK | [Olancha] |
“This is the most beautiful of all the trouts: the brilliancy and richness of its coloration is not equaled in any other known species; the delicate golden olive of the head, back, and upper part of the side, the clear golden yellow along and below the lateral line, and the marvelously rich cadmium of the under parts fully entitle this species to be known above all others as the golden trout.” (Evermann: The Golden Trout of the Southern High Sierras. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, 1905, Vol. 25, p. 28.—See, also, S.C.B., 1912, VIII:3, pp. 193-199.)
This creek was once known as Whitney Creek, because its source is near the peak ascended by Clarence King in 1871, which he supposed to be Mount Whitney. Long after the error was discovered in 1873, the name remained attached to the creek. Later it was called Volcano Creek, on account of the cinder-cones in the vicinity. (Mount Whitney Club Journal, 1902, no. 1, p. 2; 1903, no. 2, pp. 41-43.) The U.S.G.S. fixed the name Golden Trout Creek, retaining the name Volcano for the falls only. (R. B. Marshall.)
GOODALE MOUNTAIN, CREEK | [Mount Goddard] |
GOODALE PASS | [Mount Goddard] |
This pass is on the main route between North Fork of Mono Creek and head of Fish Creek.
GOODE, MOUNT (13,068) | [Mount Goddard] |
Richard Urquhart Goode, U.S.G.S.; topographer from 1879; later geographer in charge of surveys in western United States; born in Virginia, 1858, died 1903; graduate of University of Virginia. (U.S.G.S.: Twenty-fourth Annual Report, 1903, pp. 287-290.)
GORGE OF DESPAIR | [Tehipite] |
GOULD, MOUNT (12,858) | [Mount Whitney] |
The first known ascent was made by J. N. Le Conte, Hubert Dyer, Fred Pheby, C. B. Lakeman, 1890. “The main crest, 12,000 feet in elevation, was reached on July 20; and later in the day a lofty peak just to the north of pass was ascended. Inasmuch as we were the first persons ever to touch its summit, we named it University Peak.” (Hubert Dyer: Camping in the Highest Sierras, in Appalachia, 1892, VI:4, p. 295.) The name University Peak was subsequently transferred to a higher peak south of Kearsarge Pass. (J. N. Le Conte.)
GRACE MEADOW | [Dardanelles] |
GRANITE BASIN, CREEK, PASS | [Tehipite] |
GRANT LAKE |
GRAVEYARD MEADOWS | [Mount Goddard] |
GRAY PEAK (11,581) | [Mount, Lyell] |
GREAT WESTERN DIVIDE | [Olancha, Mount Whitney, Kaweah, Tehipite] |
GRIZZLY POINT OR PEAK | [Yosemite] |
GROUSE MEADOWS | [Mount Goddard] |
GRUNIGEN CREEK | [Kaweah] |
GULL LAKE | [Mount Lyell] |
GUYOT, MOUNT (12,305) | [Mount Whitney] |
W. B. Wallace built a monument on summit, 1881. (G. W. Stewart.)
Arnold Henri Guyot (1807-1884); born in Switzerland; came to America, 1848, at instance of Louis Agassiz; professor of physical geography and geology, Princeton, 1854-1884; explored the Appalachian Mountain system; made first ascent of Mount Carrigain, White Mountains, New Hampshire, 1857. (Appalachia, July 1907, XI:3, pp. 229-239.)
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