Saturday, January 3, 1970

Places: CA-Crown


Crown Basin-9,957' (Tehipite Dome) (37.0302177, -118.7717729)
Crown Creek-4,137' (Tehipite Dome) (36.9090433, -118.7846878)
Crown Lake-9,747' (Blackcap Mountain) (37.0333096,  -118.8480693)
Crown Pass-10,193' (Blackcap Mountain) (37.0413308, -118.8567755)
Crown Ridge-9,531' (Tehipite Dome) (36.9668875, -118.8742744)
Crown Rock-8,917' (Tehipite Dome) (36.9543876, -118.8712187)
Crown Valley-7,880' (Tehipite Dome) (36.9482762, -118.8551070)
Description : Trips : References : Pictures 

Description:

Named [Crown Mountain] by Frank Dusy about 1870, on account of a crownlike cap of rocks. The creek, meadow, and valley were named from the mountain. (L. A. Winchell.) From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

From GNIS:
  • Crown Rock: Also called Crown mountain-Durham, David L. California’s Geographic Names. 31-Dec-1998. Clovis, CA : Word Dancer Press.

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