Mount Stanford
{{Short description|Mountain in the American state of California}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Mount Stanford
| photo = MtStanfordDetail.jpg
| photo_caption = Mount Stanford's profile from Mount Gould to the north, May 2009.
| elevation_ft = 13,979
| elevation_ref = {{navd88}}{{cite peakbagger |pid=2786 |name=Mount Stanford, California |access-date=2009-09-01}}
| prominence_ft = 981
| parent_peak = Mount Keith{{cite peakbagger |kid=2786 |name=Key Col for Mount Stanford |access-date=2016-04-12}}
| listing = {{ubl
| Sierra Peaks Section{{cite sps |access-date=2009-09-01}}
| {{thinsp|Western States Climbers Emblem Peak}}{{cite wsc |access-date=2021-11-11}} }}
| location = {{ubl
| Tulare County, California, U.S. }}
| range = Sierra Nevada
| coordinates = {{coord|36.7039654|N|118.3957031|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_scale:100000_source:GNIS|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis |id=1659857 |name=Mount Stanford |access-date=2021-11-10}}
| topo = USGS Mount Brewer
| type =
| age =
| first_ascent = 1896 by Bolton Brown{{cite Roper |pages=264, 360}}
| easiest_route = Exposed scramble, {{YDS|3}}
}}
Mount Stanford, at an elevation of {{convert|13,979|ft|0}}, is on the Kings-Kern Divide in Kings Canyon National Park. It is named for Stanford University. It is the fifteenth tallest mountain in California{{cite peakbagger |lid=21320 |title=California 13,500-foot Peaks |access-date=2021-11-10}} and is located about {{convert|3.6|mi}} from University Peak which was named for the University of California.{{cite book |last=Gudde |first=Edwin G. |title=California Place Names |year=1949 |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |page=342 }}
History
On August 1, 1896 Professor Bolton Coit Brown of Stanford made the first recorded ascent and requested that it be named Mount Stanford. Since there was another peak with the same name in Placer County, he suggested the peak he climbed be named Stanford University peak if his first choice was rejected. The decision was made to give the name Castle Peak to the summit in Placer County and Brown's first choice was accepted. Three years later, on August 16, 1899, Stanford University's President, David Starr Jordan, also make the ascent with his wife and a party from Stanford. He had previously climbed in the Alps.{{cite summitpost |id=329817 |name=Mount Stanford |access-date=2021-11-10}}
In 1911, the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) named a peak in honor of Leland Stanford, an American tycoon, politician and founder of Stanford University. The name originally given this summit was Stanford Peak but in 1982 the USGS changed its name to Mount Stanford.{{cite gnis |id=267671 |name=Mount Stanford [north] |access-date=2009-09-01}} This other peak, with an elevation of {{convert|12838|ft|m|0}}, is located {{convert|59|mi|km}}{{cite web |url=http://www.geody.com/geocoordist.php?world=terra&circum=&c1=36.7038243+%09+-118.3956512&c2=37.4893785+%09+-118.7965143 |title=Distance and Bearing between two coordinates |publisher=Geody |accessdate=2009-09-01 }} to the north-northeast overlooking Pioneer Basin in the John Muir Wilderness.{{cite peakbagger |pid=2652 |name=Mount Stanford, California [north] |access-date=2009-09-01}}
Getting There
Mount Stanford is described as an exposed scramble ({{YDS|3}}). It can be ascended by experienced mountaineers without ropes or special equipment during the late summer months. It can be most easily be reached from the Onion Valley trailhead, west of Independence and off U. S. Route 395.
References
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Category:Mountains of Kings Canyon National Park