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The low mountain is 909 feet (277 m) in elevation. Mount Sutro is one of the many named hills within San Francisco, and among its original "Seven Hills". Most of Mount Sutro is owned by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). A 61-acre (25 ha) parcel, including the summit, is protected as the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve by UCSF ...
This is a list of named summits in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area that are more than 1,000 feet (305 m) above sea level. Note that there are no natural features above 1,000 feet (305 m) in the city of San Francisco .
A A-grade Also aid climbing grade. The technical difficulty grading system for aid climbing (both for "original" and an adapted version for "new wave"), which goes: A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and up to A6 (for "new wave"). See C-grade. Abalakov thread Abalakov thread Also V-thread. A type of anchor used in abseiling especially in winter and in ice climbing. ABD Also assisted braking device. A term ...
For "clean aid climbing" (i.e. aid climbing equipment is used but only where the equipment is temporary and not permanently hammered into the rock), the most common system is the C-system (e.g. C3+). Aid climbing grades take time to stabilize as successive repeats of aid climbing routes can materially reduce the grade.
In climbing and mountaineering, a traverse is a section of a climbing route where the climber moves laterally (or horizontally), as opposed to in an upward direction. The term has broad application, and its use can range from describing a brief section of lateral movement on a pitch of a climbing route, to large multi-pitch climbing routes that almost entirely consist of lateral movement such ...
The Twin Peaks are two prominent hills with an elevation of about 925 feet (282 m) [1] located near the geographic center of San Francisco, California.The Twin Peaks are the second and third highest natural points in San Francisco; only 928 foot (283 m) Mount Davidson is higher within city limits.
The "Hills" chapter of Gladys Hansen's San Francisco Almanac [4] repeated the list given in Hills of San Francisco and added the then-recently-named Cathedral Hill for a total of 43, but the "Places" chapter [5] listed many additional hills. More recent lists include more hills, some lesser-known, some not on the mainland, and some without names.
Mount Diablo is a mountain of the Diablo Range, in Contra Costa County of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. It is south of Clayton and northeast of Danville . It is an isolated upthrust peak of 3,849 feet (1,173 meters), visible from most of the San Francisco Bay Area.