Mount Hale (California)
History
This mountain's name was proposed by the Sierra Club and officially adopted in 1940 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to honor the eminent American astronomer George Ellery Hale (1868–1938), best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots, and founder of the Mount Wilson Observatory. The immediate area has other geographical features named after astronomers, including Mount Newcomb, Mount Langley, Mount Young, Mount Pickering, and Mount Barnard.
The first ascent of the summit was made July 24, 1934, by J. H. Czock and Mildred Czock via the south slope.
Climate
Mount Hale has an alpine climate. Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Sierra Nevada mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks, causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the range (orographic lift). Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains west to the Kern River via Wallace and Whitney Creeks.
See also
References
- ^ "Mount Hale, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
- ^ "Hale, Mount - 13,494' CA". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
- ^ "Mount Hale". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
- ^ John D. and Ruth Mendenhall, Arthur B. Johnson, Braeme Gigas, Howard Koster, A Climber’s Guide to the High Sierra, (1954)
- ^ "Climate of the Sierra Nevada". Encyclopædia Britannica.
External links
- Weather forecast: Mount Hale