Place: CA-Muir Pass

Muir Pass (Mt Goddard)
Muir Mount-14,025 Lake (Mt Whitney)
Muir Grove (Yosemite)
Muir Gorge (Kaweah)



(Long, Lat)

Description:

“John Muir: born in Scotland, reared in the University of Wisconsin, by final choice a Californian, widely traveled observer of the world we dwell in, man of science and of letters, friend and protector of Nature, uniquely gifted to interpret unto other men her mind and ways.” (Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California, in conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws on John Muir, Berkeley, California, May 14, 1913.)
Born April 21, 1838, at Dunbar, Scotland; son of Daniel and Anne Gilrye Muir; family came to America, 1849; settled in Wisconsin; attended University of Wisconsin, 1860-1863; walked to Florida, 1867; came to California from New York, via Panama, 1868; visited Yosemite, spring of 1868; “First Summer in the Sierra,” 1869; many years in Yosemite and the High Sierra; visited Alaska, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1890, 1897, 1899; around the world, 1903-1904; South America and Africa, 1911-1912, and many other travels; A.M. (hon.), Harvard, 1896, LL.D., University of Wisconsin, 1897; Litt.D., Yale, 1911; LL.D., University of California, 1913; author of many books and articles in periodicals (bibliography in S.C.B., 1916, X:1, pp. 41-59); president of the Sierra Club from its organization, 1892, until his death, 1914. (William Frederic Badè: The Life and Letters of John Muir, 2 Vols., 1923-1924.—S.C.B., 1916, X:1.)
Mount Muir was named by Professor Alexander G. McAdie. (J. N. Le Conte.) Climbed by Norman Clyde, June, 1925, who found a monument on the summit, but no written record. (S.C.B., 1926, XII:3, p. 306.)
Lake at head of Lone Pine Creek, east of Mount Muir. Here, in September, 1925, Dr. Robert A. Millikan, of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, conducted experiments for the study of cosmic rays. (Millikan: High Frequency Rays of Cosmic Origin, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January, 1926, XII:1, pp. 48-55.) Two other expeditions directed by Dr. Millikan have conducted experiments in physics in this vicinity: one in September, 1922, near Whitney Pass; another at Cottonwood Lakes in September, 1924.
“We named this gorge Muir Gorge, after Mr. John Muir, the first man to go through the [Tuolumne] cañon.” (R. M. Price in S.C.B., 1895, I:6, 206.) Muir Grove was named by R. B. Marshall, U.S.G.S., in 1909. (R. B. Marshall.)
Muir Pass was named by R. B. Marshall, U.S.G.S. It is the only pass across the Goddard Divide and is traversed by the John Muir Trail. First crossed with pack-train by U.S.G.S. party under George R. Davis in 1907, although sheep were taken over it years before. (J. N. Le Conte; S.C.B., 1909, VII:1, p. 4.) (See John Muir Trail.)
From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar 

Trips:

• Pass
• July 7-8, 2013-JMT Trip
• July 2007 - Andrea and Sherri's JMT Trip

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