Kaweah Peaks Ridge
{{Short description|Ridge in California, United States}}
{{Infobox mountain
|name=Kaweah Peaks Ridge
|photo=Kaweah Peaks.jpg
|photo_caption=Kaweah Peaks Ridge from the northeast.
Second Kaweah on left, Red Kaweah on right.
|coordinates={{coord|36|33|N|118|30.5|W|region:US-CA_type:mountain|display=inline,title}}
|highest=Mount Kaweah
|elevation_ft=13807
|elevation_ref={{NAVD88}}{{cite peakbagger|pid=2807|name=Mount Kaweah}}
|parent=Great Western Divide, Sierra Nevada
|location=California, United States
|map=California
|map_size=224px
|geology=Metamorphic
}}
Kaweah Peaks Ridge is a spur of the Great Western Divide, a sub-range of California's Sierra Nevada.
{{cite book
| last = Roper
| first = Steve
| title = The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra
| page = [https://archive.org/details/climbersguidetot00rope/page/269 269]
| year = 1976
| publisher = Sierra Club Books
| isbn = 0-87156-147-6
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/climbersguidetot00rope/page/269
}}
The ridge is located in Sequoia National Park and is composed of mostly rugged and loose metamorphic rock.
{{cite book
| last = Hill
| first = Mary
| year = 2006
| title = Geology of the Sierra Nevada
| publisher = University of California Press
| isbn = 0-520-23695-5}}
Named mountains
There are several officially named peaks along the ridge:
- Black Kaweah (13,686+ ft / 4,172+ m)
- Kaweah Queen (13,388 ft / 4,081 m)
- Mount Kaweah (13,807 ft / 4,208 m)
- Red Kaweah, (13,726+ ft / 4184+ m)
Location
The peaks, {{convert|20|mi|km|0}} by trail from any road, are south of the Kings-Kaweah Divide, east of the Great Western Divide and, despite their name, are in the Kern watershed, not the Kaweah watershed. There are many high alpine lakes surrounding the peaks in Nine Lake Basin to the west and Kaweah Basin to the east. Visitors are rare due to the isolated location, but the Kaweah Peaks offer tranquil camping, fishing and high alpine mountaineering. For the most part, the rock is loose and metamorphic.{{cite book|author=Allan A. Schoenherr|title=A Natural History of California: Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D1kkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|date=3 July 2017|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-96455-6|page=65}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.summitpost.org/kaweah-peaks/171001 On climbing the Kaweahs]. SummitPost.org.
{{Sequoia National Park}}
Category:Mountains of Sequoia National Park
Category:Landforms of Tulare County, California
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