Jobs Sister

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Jobs Sister
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Southeast aspect
Highest point
Elevation 10,823 ft (3,299 m) [1]
Prominence 343 ft (105 m) [2]
Parent peak Freel Peak (10,886 ft) [3]
Isolation 0.90 mi (1.45 km) [3]
Listing Tahoe OGUL Peak [4]
Coordinates 38°51′44″N119°53′04″W / 38.8622846°N 119.8843965°W / 38.8622846; -119.8843965 [5]
Geography
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Jobs Sister
Location in California
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Jobs Sister
Jobs Sister (the United States)
Location El Dorado / Alpine counties, California, United States
Parent range Sierra Nevada
Carson Range
Topo map USGS Freel Peak
Geology
Rock age Late Cretaceous
Mountain type Fault block
Rock type Granodiorite
Climbing
Easiest route class 1 hiking [3]

Jobs Sister is a mountain summit located near Lake Tahoe in northern California.

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Description

Jobs Sister is situated on the common border that El Dorado County shares with Alpine County, as well as the boundary Eldorado National Forest shares with Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. It is set on the crest of the Carson Range which is a subset of the Sierra Nevada. At an elevation of 10,823-foot (3,299-meter), Jobs Sister is the second-highest summit in the Carson Range and the Tahoe Basin, [6] and only 63 feet lower than line parent Freel Peak. [2] Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 6,000 feet (1,800 meters) above Carson Valley in four miles. The Tahoe Rim Trail traverses the northern slope of the mountain, providing an approach option. This landform's toponym has been officially adopted by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, [5] and was named by the Whitney Survey on an 1881 map. It is named in association with Jobs Peak (1.3 mile east) which in turn is named for Mormon settler, Moses Job, who operated a store in Carson Valley in the 1850s. [7]

Climate

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Jobs Sister is located in an alpine climate zone. [8] 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.

See also

References

  1. ↑ United States Geological Survey topographical map - Freel Peak
  2. 1 2 "Jobs Sister, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Jobs Sister - 10,823' CA". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Tahoe OGUL Peaks List" . Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  5. 1 2 "Jobs Sister". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  6. ↑ Ann Marie Brown (2015), Moon Tahoe, Avalon Publishing, ISBN   9781631211669
  7. ↑ Barbara Lekisch (1988), Tahoe Place Names, Great West Books, ISBN   9780944220016, p. 66
  8. ↑ "Climate of the Sierra Nevada". Encyclopædia Britannica .
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