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Mount Conness is a 12,590 foot (3,840 m) mountain in the Sierra Nevada range, to the west of the Hall Natural Area. Conness is on the boundary between the Inyo National Forest and Yosemite National Park. The Conness Glacier lies north of the summit.

Mount Conness
from the south, showing Conness Glacier
Highest point
Elevation	12,590 ft (3,840 m) NAVD 88[1]
Prominence	2,630 ft (802 m)[2]
Parent peak	Mount Dana[3]
Listing	Sierra Peaks Section[4] California highest major peaks 19th
Coordinates	37°58′01″N 119°19′17″W[1]
Geography
Location	Mono / Tuolumne counties, California, U.S.
Parent range	Sierra Nevada
Topo map	USGS Tioga Pass[2]
Climbing
First ascent	1864 by Clarence King and James T. Gardiner[5]
Easiest route	Scramble, class 2[4]

History

Mount Conness is named for John Conness (1821–1909), a native of Ireland who came to United States in 1836.[6][7] Conness was a member of California legislature (1853–1854, 1860–1861) and the United States Senator from California (1863–1869). He resided in Massachusetts from 1869 until his death in 1909.[8]

In 1860 Josiah Dwight Whitney, Jr. was appointed State Geologist of California and he organized the California Geological Survey (1863–1870). Whitney, along with William H. Brewer, Clarence King, James T. Gardiner, Charles F. Hoffmann, Lorenzo G. Yates, Richard D. Cotter and others, made an extensive survey of California, including the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite region. Whitney wrote:

"Mount Conness bears the name of a distinguished citizen of California, now a United States Senator, who deserves more than any other person, the credit of carrying the bill, organizing the Geological Survey of California, through the Legislature, and who is chiefly to be credited for another great scientific work, the Survey of the 40th Parallel."[9]

Clarence King, a geologist for the Survey and the first to ascend Mount Conness along with James T. Gardiner in 1864, wrote:

"I recognized the old familiar summit... and that firm peak with titan strength and brow so square and solid, it seems altogether natural we should have named it for California’s statesman, John Conness."[10]

Climbing

Conness is a training ground for alpine climbing since it utilizes all aspects of mountaineering: trails, scrambling, and glacier trekking; all at a high altitude for California. Usually climbers camp near Tioga Pass and begin the climb at dawn. It takes about a full day to summit.

The summit block consists of class 2 scrambling along a knife edge ridge leading to the summit consisting of views to the east of the Conness Glacier and to the west toward Tuolumne Meadows.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mount Conness.

• "Mount Conness". SummitPost.org.
• "Mount Conness". TheBackcountry.org.
• "Climbing Mt Conness (photo essay)". WebShots.com.
• "Climb of Mount Conness - North Ridge". Archived from the original on 2010-07-24. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
• Farquhar, Francis P. (1926). Place Names of the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club. p. 15.

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[de] Mount Conness

Der Mount Conness ist ein 3839 m[2] hoher Berg in der Sierra Nevada im Bundesstaat Kalifornien der Vereinigten Staaten. Er liegt auf der Grenze zwischen Mono County und dem Tuolumne County und gilt als höchster Berg der Sierra Nevada nördlich des Tioga Pass.[1]

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[fr] Mont Conness

Le mont Conness est une montagne de la Sierra Nevada, en Californie. Elle est située à la frontière entre le comté de Tuolumne, à l'ouest, et le comté de Mono, à l'est, ainsi qu'à la limite entre la Yosemite Wilderness, dans le parc national de Yosemite, à l'ouest, et la Hoover Wilderness, dans la forêt nationale d'Inyo, à l'est.

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