San Jacinto Peak
| San Jacinto Peak | ||
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 San Jacinto Peak viewed from the north |
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| height | 3302 m | |
| location | Riverside County , California , USA | |
| Mountains | San Jacinto Mountains | |
| Notch height | 2536 m | |
| Coordinates | 33 ° 48 '52 " N , 116 ° 40' 45" W | |
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| First ascent | September 1874 by "F. of Riverside" | |
| Development | Palm Springs Aerial Tramway | |
| Normal way | Hiking trail from the top station of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway | |
 North side of the mountain |
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The San Jacinto Peak (also Mount San Jacinto and San Jacinto Mountain ) is a 3302 m high mountain in northern Riverside County , California , United States , and the highest peak of the San Jacinto Mountains . The mountain is located in Mount San Jacinto State Park and has the sixth highest notch height of all mountains in the Continental United States . John Muir described the view from San Jacinto Peak as the most impressive spectacle on earth. John W. Robinson and Bruce D. Risher, authors of The San Jacintos, wrote that every good climber in Southern California must climb San Jacinto Peak at least once.
geography
San Jacinto Peak lies west of the city of Palm Springs and east of the mountainous town of Idyllwild-Pine Cove . The steep strata on its north side rises above Snow Creek by 3000 m over a length of 11 km. In the Continental United States , this corresponds to one of the greatest changes in altitude in relation to the short distance.
From the top of the mountain, behind the San Gorgonio Pass, the San Gorgonio Mountain , the highest point of the San Bernardino Mountains , can be seen. Other visible areas on clear days are the Coachella Valley , the Salton Sea and a large part of the Inland Empire as far as Ontario . The summit itself can still be seen in Blythe , 209 km to the east, with good visibility .
Together with the San Gorgonio Mountain and Mount San Antonio in the San Gabriel Mountains , the San Jacinto Peak is one of the "Three Saints" ( German: "Drei Heilige"). The term summarizes the highest mountains of the three largest mountain ranges in Southern California .
history
The Cahuilla called the San Jacinto Peak I a kitch or Aya Kaich , which means smooth rocks in German . In their stories there is the meteor on Mount Dakush , to which the Indian tribe traces its origin.
In 1878, a group led by a farmer named Charles Thomas from the Garner Valley climbed the mountain. The participants named the mountain San Jacinto Peak. In September 1874, a climber had previously reached the summit, known by The San Diego Union-Tribune as “F. of Riverside ”; this is the earliest recorded ascent of the mountain. The first successful ascent on the northeast steep slope was made in 1931 by Floyd Vernoy and Stewart White from Riverside.
The neighboring peaks Jean Peak (3250 m) and Marion Mountain (3158 m) were named in 1897 by USGS topographer Edmund Taylor Perkins, Jr. The Jean Peak owes its name to Perkins 'lover and later wife Jean Waters, Marion Mountain is named after Perkins' friend Marion Kelly. Another nearby peak is Cornell Peak. When Perkins camped with geologist Robert T. Hill in Round Valley, Hill mentioned that Cornell Peak looked like the clock tower of Cornell University . Perkins later named the mountain in memory of it.
In 1931 and 1932, the San Jacinto Mountain Chamber of Commerce hosted a Labor Day race from Idyllwild-Pine Cove to the top of San Jacinto Peak and back. The distance was 29 km, the difference in altitude 1615 m. The race in 1931 was won by the Hopi Indian Tom Humphreys in 3:36:30 hours, a year later he won the new edition of the competition again, this time in 3:12 hours.
Not far from the summit is a stone hut built by the Civilian Conservation Corps under the direction of Alfred Zarubicka, a Serbian-Croatian immigrant and stonemason from Idyllwild-Pine Cove.
hike
San Jacinto Peak is easily accessible via several routes from the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument . Another way to climb the summit is a ride on the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway from the 806 m high valley station to the 2596 m high mountain station followed by climbing on the mountain wall. Another ascent route begins in Idyllwild-Pine Cove and leads over the Marion Mountain trail. The Cactus to Clouds Trail, a difficult climbing route, is also an ascent option. Starting at the Palm Springs Art Museum, you have to climb 3000 meters on the way to the summit of the San Jacinto Peaks.
The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) passes close to the summit of San Jacinto.
Web links
- Mount San Jacinto State Park California Department of Parks and Recreation
- San Jacinto Peak SummitPost.org (English)
- Mt.San Jacinto - California's Gold (804) Video by Huell Howser about San Jacinto Peak from the California's Gold series of Chapman University (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ San Jacinto Peak via Palm Springs Tram ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. LokalHikes.com (English)
- ↑ San Jacinto Via Marion Mountain Trail ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. LokalHikes.com (English)
- ↑ Cactus to Clouds Hike, Mt. San Jacinto Peak yelp.com (English)
