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Silver Lake is a reservoir in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. [1] It is located within Amador County. It is about 20 mi (32 km) south of South Lake Tahoe and about 8 miles (13 km) west of Carson Pass. [2] The lake surface is 525 acres (212 ha) at full capacity and is at an elevation of 7,200 feet (2,200 m). [3]
Thunder Mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California is located east of Silver Lake and west of Kirkwood Mountain Resort [3] in the Eldorado National Forest. The mountain has two peaks, the 9,414-foot (2,869 m) main peak [1] and a 9,412-foot (2,869 m) sub-peak west of the main peak. [4] The main summit is the highest point in Amador County. [1]
Carson Peak is a 10,908-foot-elevation (3,325-meter) mountain summit located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Mono County of northern California, United States. [3] It is situated in the Ansel Adams Wilderness, on land managed by Inyo National Forest.
Silver Lake is a lake within the Inyo National Forest in Mono County, California, in the United States. [1] See also. List of lakes in California; References
Bucks Lake Wilderness, Plumas National Forest. The topography is classic Sierra Nevada with gentle slopes on the western side, glacial cirques, and areas of bare granitic rock. The highest point is Mount Pleasant (7,054 ft [3]). Of the 13 cirques in the area, the one-mile (1.6 km)-wide Silver Lake is the largest, located below Spanish Peak of ...
High Sierra (biome), a region of California Sierra Nevada (U.S.) , a mountain range in California also called the High Sierra or High Sierras High Sierra Trail , which crosses the Sierra Nevada
English: Map of Silver Lake, California, as delineated by the Los Angeles Times Other information Boundary map as drawn by the Los Angeles Times on a CC-by-SA background. Note at bottom right of map on the L.A. Times website noted above says "CC-by-SA" (which gives permission to use the map
Walter A. Starr, Jr., author of Starr’s Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region, fell to his death while solo-climbing the northwest face of Michael Minaret in 1933. [8] [9] Steve Fossett, an American aviator and adventurer, died in a plane crash near the Minarets in 2007. [10] Labeled photo of individual Minarets