Place: CA-Pinchot

Pinchot, Mount (Mt Whitney),  13,470'
Pinchot Pass (Mt Whitney),  
(Long, Lat)

Description:
Occupied as triangulation station in 1905 by members of the U.S.G.S. This was the first ascent. (J. N. Le Conte.—Gannett: Results of Primary Triangulation and Primary Traverse, Fiscal Year 1905-6, U.S.G.S. Bulletin no. 310, 1907, p. 162.)

“Only five miles south [from summit of Split Mountain] there stood a great rounded mass of red slate on the Main Crest, and I allowed myself to change the name Red Mountain given it by Professor Brown [S.C.B., 1896, I:8, p. 309], and already applied to scores of the slate peaks of the Sierra, to Mount Pinchot.” (J. N. Le Conte, in S.C.B., 1903, IV: p. 362.)

Gifford Pinchot; chief of Division of Forestry, U. S. Department of Agriculture (afterwards called Bureau of Forestry, and, later, U. S. Forest Service), 1898-1910; born in Connecticut, 1865; A.B., Yale, 1889; LL.D., McGill, 1909; professor of forestry, Yale; governor of Pennsylvania since 1923.
from Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

Trips:

• July 12, 2013 - JMT Trip with Sherri and Gary
• July 2007 - JMT Trip with Sherri and Andrea

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