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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:
People travel great distances to Mount Popa in the hope of securing good luck, and the mountain hosts an annual festival which takes place in the temple on its summit. [5] The festival involves a transgender medium being possessed by a nat spirit which give him the ability to communicate between the nats and the people.
Mount Saint Helena (Wappo: Kanamota, "Human Mountain") [4] is a peak in the Mayacamas Mountains with flanks in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties of California.Composed of uplifted volcanic rocks from the Clear Lake Volcanic Field, it is one of the few mountains in the San Francisco Bay Area to receive any snowfall during the winter.
Mount Whitney is the highest summit of the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States.. This is a complete list of the 12 summits with elevation higher than 14,000 feet (4,267 m) in the U.S. state of California, with at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence.
This is a list of 58 counties of the U.S. State of California by their points of highest elevation. 6 of the 50 highest county high points in the United States are in California. Mount Whitney , located in Inyo and Tulare counties, is the highest point in California as well as the highest point in the contiguous United States at 14,505 feet ...
Chimborazo is only the 39 th tallest mountain in the Andes, when measured from sea level, but there was a brief time in the 19 th century when it was thought to be the world’s highest peak.
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.
The mountain is named for Lt. Robert Stockton Williamson (1825–1882), who conducted one of the Pacific Railroad Surveys in Southern California. [9]The first recorded ascent of Mount Williamson was made in 1884 by W. L. Hunter and C. Mulholland, by way of the Southeast Slopes Route.