Splendid Mountains

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The various less well known early explorers of the Sierra Nevada were private individuals, moderately than government expeditions or cartographers. The more literate ones had accounts of their achievements, adventures, and
mishaps published in newspapers and journals, incessantly accompanying them with photographs, drawings, and hand-drawn maps. These kind of wilderness travelers have been immortalized by having their names placed on mountains, lakes, and streams: Frank Dusy; Wales, Wallace, and Wright; Theodore S. Solomons; Bolton C. and Lucy Brown; Joseph N. and Marion LeConte; Lt.
Nathaniel Fish McClure; Cornelius Beach Bradley; James E. Hutchinson. These are foremost a few of the few who pioneered the routes that are followed by such a lot of at this time day.
Bolton Coit Brown in 1895 wrote: . . . all of the splendid mountains away off north and east of Paradise Valley, where the map shows nothing, were beautiful exceedingly . . . .
In 1896 Brown made the first ascent of Mount Clarence King, and wrote: The top of the summit block slopes northwest, is about fifteen feet across, and as smooth as a cobblestone. For those who fall off one side, you’ll be killed in the vicinity; For those who fall off any of the other sides, you’ll be pulverized in the remote nadir beneath.

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