Hitchcock Lakes (Mt Whitney)
(long, lat)
Mount Hitchcock-13,192' (Mt Whitney)
(36° 33' 18'' N; 118° 18' 43'' W)
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On Tuesday, September 7, 1881, Rev. F. H. Wales, of Tulare, climbed Mount Young, where he built a monument and left a record of its name, “and the name of another handsome peak just south of it, which, from his suggestion, was named Mount Hitchcock.” (Elliott: Guide to the Grand and Sublime Scenery of the Sierra Nevada, 1883, pp. 49-50.)
Charles Henry Hitchcock (1836-1919); professor of geology, Dartmouth College, 1868-1908; emeritus, 1908-1919; conducted the first high mountain observatory in United States, on Mount Washington, N. H., winter of 1870-1871. From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar
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