Английская Википедия:Disappointment Peak (California)
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Disappointment Peak is a 13,917-foot-elevation (4,242 meter) summit located on the shared boundary of Fresno County and Inyo County in California, United States.[1]
Description
The peak is set on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the Palisades area. It also straddles the border shared by Kings Canyon National Park and John Muir Wilderness. It is situated Шаблон:Convert southeast of line parent Middle Palisade, and Шаблон:Convert west of The Thumb. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises Шаблон:Convert above Palisades Lakes in approximately one mile. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains north to Big Pine Creek, as well as south and west into Palisade Creek which is a tributary of the Middle Fork Kings River. The John Muir Trail, which passes below the south base of the peak, provides an approach option.
History
The first ascent of the summit was made July 20, 1919, by J. M. Davies, A. L. Jordan, and H. H. Bliss via the Southwest Chute, and the Northeast Couloir was first climbed by Norman Clyde on June 20, 1930.[2] The West Face (Шаблон:YDS) was first climbed in September 1986 by Galen Rowell and Dan Frankl.[3] This mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names.[1] The toponym recognizes the "disappointment" the first ascent party felt when finding themselves on this summit instead of Middle Palisade, which they thought they were climbing.[3] They left a note in a can which stated: "The undersigned made a first ascent of this peak this day and were disappointed not to find it the highest point of the Middle Palisade. We hereby christen this summit 'Peak Disappointment'".[4] It would be exactly twenty years to the day after the disappointing first ascent, that the difficult traverse from Disappointment Peak to Middle Palisade would first be accomplished by David Brower, Bruce Meyer, and Keith Taylor.[5]
Climate
Disappointment Peak is located in an alpine climate zone.[6] 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. This climate supports the Middle Palisade Glacier on the north slope below the summit.
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References
External links
- Weather forecast: Disappointment Peak
- 1986 climbing fatality: American Alpine Club
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокgnisне указан текст - ↑ David R. Brower and Fred L. Jones, A Climber's Guide to the High Sierra (1954)
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 R. J. Secor, The High Sierra Peaks, Passes, Trails, 2009, Third Edition, Mountaineers Books, Шаблон:ISBN, p. 227
- ↑ Peter Browning (1986), Place Names of the Sierra Nevada: From Abbot to Zumwalt, Wilderness Press, Шаблон:ISBN, p. 57
- ↑ Stephen Porcella, Cameron Burns (1998), Climbing California's Fourteeners: The Route Guide to the Fifteen Highest Peaks, Mountaineers Books, Шаблон:ISBN, p. 151
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite encyclopedia
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