Friday, January 23, 1970

Place: CA-Wright

Wright Creek (Mt Whitney)
(Long, Lat)

Description:
Name proposed by Sierra Club, 1925, for group of lakes extending from southwestern base of Mount Tyndall toward Sandy Plateau, and for creek connecting these lakes with Wallace Creek. Wright’s name was given in 1881 to a mountain on the Great Western Divide, but it never became current.

James William Albert Wright; A.B., Princeton, 1857; came to California from southern states and settled in San Joaquin Valley; accompanied W. B. Wallace and F. H. Wales to Kern River and Mount Whitney, 1881.
  From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

Trips:
  • July 16, 2013-JMT: Sherri and Gary
  • August 2007-JMT: Sherri and Andrea

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