Mount Bolton Brown

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Mount Bolton Brown
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West aspect, from Palisade Lakes
Highest point
Elevation 13,491 ft (4,112 m) [1] [2]
Prominence 598 ft (182 m) [2]
Parent peak Ed Lane Peak (13,577 ft) [3]
Isolation 1.02 mi (1.64 km) [3]
Listing Sierra Peaks Section
Vagmarken Club Sierra Crest List [4]
Coordinates 37°02′46″N118°26′28″W / 37.0461296°N 118.4410291°W / 37.0461296; -118.4410291 [5]
Naming
Etymology Bolton Brown
Geography
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Mount Bolton Brown
Location in California
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Mount Bolton Brown
Mount Bolton Brown (the United States)
Location Kings Canyon National Park
Fresno / Inyo Counties
California, U.S.
Parent range Sierra Nevada
Topo map USGS Split Mountain
Geology
Rock age Cretaceous
Mountain type Fault block
Rock type Granodiorite
Climbing
First ascent 1922
Easiest route class 3 scrambling [1]

Mount Bolton Brown is a 13,491-foot-elevation (4,112-meter) mountain summit located on the shared border of Fresno County and Inyo County in California, United States.

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Description

The peak is set on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, just south of the Palisades area. It is also situated on the boundary shared by Kings Canyon National Park and John Muir Wilderness. Mount Bolton Brown ranks as the 64th-highest peak in California. [3] Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains east to Tinemaha Reservoir via Tinemaha Creek; south into headwaters of South Fork Kings River; and northwest to Palisade Creek which is a tributary of the Middle Fork Kings River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 4,500 feet (1,400 meters) above Tinemaha Creek in 2.5 miles.

Climbing

The John Muir Trail, which passes below the western base of the peak, provides a climbing approach option. The first ascent of the summit was made August 14, 1922, by Chester Versteeg and Rudolph Berls by ascending the Northwest Ridge and descending the Southwest Slope. [6] The North Slope was first climbed by Fred L. Jones on October 6, 1948. The South Ridge was first climbed March 19, 1972, by Ed Treacy, Karl Bennett, Dave Gladstone, Dave King, Vi Grasso and Doug Mantle. [1] These climbing routes are non-technical, and inclusion on the Sierra Peaks Section peakbagging list generates climbing interest.

Etymology

This landform's name remembers Bolton Coit Brown (1864–1936), an American painter, lithographer, and mountaineer. [7] The year following his first ascent, Chester Versteeg wrote in the Sierra Club Bulletin: "Alt. of this mountain is 13,527. It stands at the junction of the Sequoia, Sierra and Inyo Nat. Forests. We hereby name it 'Mt. Bolton Brown' in honor of Bolton C. Brown of the Sierra Club, who was the first to explore, map and write of the Upper Basin of the So. Fork of the Kings River." [8] [9] Bolton Brown was a charter member of the Sierra Club, and wrote several stories for the club about his explorations in the Sierras, including the area this mountain rises from. The toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. [5]

Climate

Mount Bolton Brown is located in an alpine climate zone. [10] 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.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 R. J. Secor, The High Sierra Peaks, Passes, Trails, 2009, Third Edition, Mountaineers Books, ISBN   9781594857386, p. 224
  2. 1 2 "Mount Bolton Brown, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Bolton Brown, Mount - 13,490' CA". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Vagmarken Sierra Crest List". Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club . Retrieved May 30, 2022.
  5. 1 2 "Mount Bolton Brown". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved May 30, 2022.
  6. ↑ Fred L. Jones, A Climber's Guide to the High Sierra (1954)
  7. ↑ Peter Browning (1986), Place Names of the Sierra Nevada: From Abbot to Zumwalt, Wilderness Press, ISBN   9780899970479, p. 22
  8. ↑ Sierra Club Bulletin, Volume XI, (1923), p. 426
  9. ↑ Francis P. Farquhar, Place Names of the High Sierra (1926)
  10. ↑ "Climate of the Sierra Nevada". Encyclopædia Britannica .
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