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Smith Mountain, 5,915 feet (1,803 m), is a peak in the Black Mountains of the Amargosa Range in Death Valley National Park in California. It is named after Francis Marion "Borax" Smith , of the local Pacific Coast Borax Company enterprise.
The park was named after explorer Jedediah Smith, who was the first American to travel, by land, from the Mississippi River to California in 1826, passing through the area of the future park. [4] The original Tolowa people depended on the resources of the Smith River and the redwood forests. They used the forest for shelter, tools, and cultural ...
Smith Mountain (Blue Ridge Mountains) a range in northern Pittsylvania County, Virginia, from which Smith Mountain Lake gets its name. Smith Mountain (Taconic Mountains), a peak in western Massachusetts. Smith Mountain (Death Valley), a peak in Death Valley National Park in California.
The historical Burro Schmidt Tunnel is located in the El Paso Mountains of the northern Mojave Desert, in eastern Kern County, southern California. It is a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) mining tunnel dug with hand tools and dynamite over a 38-year period by William "Burro" H. Schmidt (1871–1954). [2] in the El Paso Mountains of eastern California.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of California. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Hiker gets stuck 9,800 feet up treacherous California mountain, deputies say. Drone spots body of 22-year-old hiker week after she vanished on Mount Baldy, cops say.
Another week of pounding snow has deluged many of California's most popular mountain resorts and communities, from Lake Tahoe to Lake Arrowhead, where residents struggled with shuttered highways ...
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