Tuesday, January 20, 1970

Places: CA-Tehipite


Tehipite Dome-7,684' (Tehipite Dome) (36.9185529, -118.7809375)
Tehipite Valley-4,150' (Tehipite Dome) (36.9099419, -118.7803818)
Little Tehipite Valley-3,921' (Tehipite Dome) (36.8874425,  -118.7984376)
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Description:
TEHIPITE DOME, VALLEY    [Tehipite]
“Tehipite is an Indian word, and by these people was applied to the massive granite tower. Its interpretation is ‘high rock.’ The accent is on the antepenultimate. The Te is sounded short and blended with hip, which is a combination of short i and short e; the third syllable, i, is short and guttural, and the last, e, is spoken very rapidly and abruptly and pronounced ‘teh’.” (L. A. Winchell: Manuscript, 1896.)

The valley was discovered by Frank Dusy in 1869. After several visits in the next few years, he succeeded, 1879, in breaking a trail and getting animals down. On this occasion he took the first photograph ever made of the dome. (L. A. Winchell.) Other accounts say that Dusy found evidence of former visitors. (Elliott: Guide to the Grand and Sublime Scenery of the Sierra Nevada, 1883, pp. 15-16.)

For early visits and descriptions, see: John Muir, in Century, November, 1891, pp. 95-97; T. S. Solomons, in Overland, August, 1897, pp. 130-141; J. M. Stillman, in S.C.B., 1897, II:1, pp. 44-49; notes in S.C.B., 1897, II:2, pp. 106-110; Elesa M. Gremke, in Sunset, March, 1901, pp. 135-141; Ernestine Winchell, in Out West, April, 1911, pp. 297-304. 
  From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

From GNIS:
  • Little Tehipite Valley also called Little Tehipitee Valley: Browning, Peter. Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley, California: Wilderness Press, 1986. p213
  •  Tehipite Dome also called Little Tehipitee  Dome: Browning, Peter. Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley, California: Wilderness Press, 1986. p213
  • Little Tehipite Valley also called Little Tehipitee Valley: Browning, Peter. Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley, California: Wilderness Press, 1986. p213

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