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Banner Peak is the impressive mountain lying just to the north of Mt. Ritter. The convoluted east face is a spectacular sight when viewed from Garnet and Thousand Island lakes. Comprised of a series o
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The first ascent of Banner Peak’s spectacular north skyline was another of those early Class 4 routes that have since been recognized as much harder. Jim Koontz and Sarah Haynes made the first ascent
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The northern aspect of Bear Creek Spire commands the view of hikers traveling in the Little Lakes Valley. From the Pine Creek drainage, the great south face and east arete of Bear Creek Spire are impr
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Bear Creek Spire was another of Norman Clyde’s favorite peaks, and for many years he maintained a spring ski mountaineering camp at its base. David Brower wrote much of his classic 1940 Sierra Club Ma
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This spire, the tallest of the Minarets, is a worthy memorial to Norman Clyde. Clyde made the first ascent of the peak in June of 1928. His steep and exposed route on the north face was accomplished (
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Norman Clyde first came up with the name Feather Peak after his ascent in 1935. However, his was not the first ascent of the peak. David Brower had made the first ascent of the peak in July of 1933, s
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Merriam Peak is the easternmost of the trio of granite peaks overlooking the Royce Lakes chain. This peak was named in 1929 for Dr. Clinton Hart Merriam, who was chief of the U.S. Biological Survey in
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Charles Michael made the first ascent of his namesake Minaret in September of 1923. Michael was the postmaster in Yosemite Valley in the early years of the twentieth century and was one of the finest
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The traverse of the Minarets involves over a linear mile of continuously difficult, exposed, and committing climbing. Sections of the traverse had been done as early as the 1930s, but the first full t
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Mt. Abbot is named for Henry Abbot, a surveyor and engineer who worked on the railroad through California and Oregon and later participated in the planning of the Panama Canal. The Whitney Survey name
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Partially hidden by the colorful Treasure Peak, the impressive north face of Mt. Dade is often overlooked by climbers heading for Mt. Abbot or Bear Creek Spire. Liston and McKeen (first names unknown)
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John Muir named Mt. Emerson during a trip into Humphreys Basin in 1873 in honor of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a philosopher and essayist who visited Muir in Yosemite Valley in 1871. The summit of the peak h
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John Muir described Mt. Humphreys as “a grand wide-winged mountain at the head of the San Joaquin. Its head is high above its fellows and its wings are white with ice and snow.” He first visited this
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Mt. Humphreys is one of the most prominent peaks in the Sierra and is one of the more difficult summits to attain because there is no easy way to the top. Standing just 14 feet shy of 14,000 feet, it
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The north wall of Mt. Morrison holds an almost “fatal attraction” for climbers. The wall, which looks solid and climbable from the road, is mostly shattered and dangerously loose. Mike Strassman descr
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The Whitney Survey named Mt. Ritter in 1864 for Karl Ritter, the noted German geographer. Josiah Whitney, the leader of the survey, had been a student of Ritter’s at the University of Berlin in the 18
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Mt. Ritter is the highest peak in the Ritter Range and its summit has been the goal of mountaineers since the days of Clarence King and John Muir. The relatively remote west side of the peak is home t
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James Hutchinson, Lincoln Hutchinson, and Charles A. Noble made the first ascent of Red and White Mountain in July of 1902. Their route up this colorful peak ascended the loose and exposed, knife-edge
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Red Slate Mountain is the tallest and most massive peak in this part of the Sierra. There is a tremendous view of the northern High Sierra from the summit and this led James Gardiner of the Whitney Su
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As seen from near the trailhead at Mosquito Flat, the Rock Creek crest forms a jagged skyline of massive peaks and rugged gendarmes. The wild traverse of this crest involves nearly 4 miles of mostly f
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The Ruby Wall is one of the most impressive walls in the Sierra backcountry. Galen Rowell was the central figure in route development of the Ruby Wall. Rock Creek Canyon has long been one of Galen’s f
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Theodore Solomons made the first ascent of this double-summited peak with Leigh Bierce in 1894. The many buttresses on the north side of the peak inspired Solomons to give the peak its name. “The sout
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This remote wall is another one of those routes that climbers looked at for years but always assumed someone else had climbed. It is easily visible from campsites in Pioneer and Hopkins basins. Ever o
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