Place: CA-Bubbs Creek

Bubbs Creek(quad)
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Description:

From Place Names of the Sierra Nevada by Francis P. Farquhar

BUBBS CREEK

[Mount Whitney]

John Bubbs was one of a party of prospectors who crossed Kearsarge Pass from Owens Valley in 1864. (S.C.B., 1918, X:3, p. 340.) These prospectors are mentioned by Brewer’s party of the Whitney Survey. (Whitney Survey: Geology, 1865, p. 394.)

The route was up Bubbs Creek (named for John Bubbs, one of the prospectors) and up Charlotte Creek.

First we went up a steep, rocky slope of 1,000 to 1,500 feet, so steep and rough that we would never have attempted it had not the prospectors already been over it and made a trail in the worst places—it was terrible. In places the mules could scarcely get a foothold where a canyon yawned hundreds of feet below; in places it was so steep that we had to pull the pack animals up by main strength. They show an amount of sagacity in such places almost incredible. From Up and Down California by William Brewer, Book 5  Chapter 3

Trips:

• August 16, 2013
• July 14, 2013 - JMT: Sherri and Gary
• July 2006 - JMT: Sherri and Andrea
  

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