Mount Ripinski

Mount Ripinski
Mount Ripinski
	A picture of Mount Ripinski looking south.
Highest point
Elevation	3,675 + ft (1,120 m) [1]
Prominence	739 ft (225 m) [1]
Coordinates	59°15′55″N135°31′5″W / 59.26528°N 135.51806°W
Geography
Location	Chilkat Peninsula, Haines Borough, Alaska
Topo map	USGS Haines
Climbing
First ascent	Unknown
Easiest route	Scramble

Last updated April 25, 2019

Mount Ripinski (sometimes Mount Ripinsky) ^[2] is a mountain located immediately to the north of Haines, Alaska at the southern terminus in the Takshanuk Mountains.

Haines, Alaska Census-designated place in Alaska, United States

Haines is a census-designated place located in Haines Borough, Alaska, United States. It is in the northern part of the Alaska Panhandle, near Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.

Alaska is a U.S. state in the northwest extremity of North America, just across the Bering Strait from Asia. The Canadian province of British Columbia and territory of Yukon border the state to the east and southeast. Its most extreme western part is Attu Island, and it has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas—southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. It is the largest U.S. state by area and the seventh largest subnational division in the world. In addition, it is the 3rd least populous and the most sparsely populated of the 50 United States; nevertheless, it is by far the most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel in North America: its population—estimated at 738,432 by the United States Census Bureau in 2015— is more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.

The Takshanuk Mountains are a mountain range in Southeast Alaska, United States that separate the Chilkoot and Chilkat watersheds and also form the northern portion of the Chilkat Peninsula.

Mount Ripinski is a popular day hike for local residents of Haines and features two distinct trails that converge on the south side of the summit. They are known as the Young Road Trail and the Piedad Cut-Off, and vary dramatically in difficulty and rate of altitude gain.

The mountain was named after "Sol Ripinsky"^[3] (possible latter Ripinski in 1911 when he became a US citizen)^[4] of the Haines Mission established by Sheldon Jackson.

Sheldon Jackson was a Presbyterian minister, missionary, and political leader. During this career he travelled about one million miles and established more than one hundred missions and churches, mostly in the Western United States. He is best remembered for his extensive work in Colorado and thereafter during the final quarter of the 19th century in the massive, rugged, and remote Alaska Territory, which in 1959 would become the 49th U.S. state of Alaska, and his efforts to suppress Native American languages.

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References

1 2 "Mount Ripinski". Peakbagger.com.
↑ "Mount Ripinski". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
↑ "Jewish Post 17 July 1985 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program". newspapers.library.in.gov.
↑ ""Colonel" Solomon Ripinsky: Jewish Educator and Civic Service Pioneer of Alaska - JMAW - Jewish Museum of the American West". www.jmaw.org.

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[pb-1] 1 2 "Mount Ripinski". Peakbagger.com.

[2] "Mount Ripinski". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.

[3] "Jewish Post 17 July 1985 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program". newspapers.library.in.gov.

[4] ""Colonel" Solomon Ripinsky: Jewish Educator and Civic Service Pioneer of Alaska - JMAW - Jewish Museum of the American West". www.jmaw.org.