San Jacinto Peak
San Jacinto Peak viewed from the north
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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 the Mount San Jacinto State Park and has the sixth highest Vertical separation of all the mountains in the Continental United States. John Muir described the view from San Jacinto Peak and most impressive spectacle of the whole earth. John W. Robinson and Bruce D. Risher, authors of the book The San Jacinto wrote that every good climber Southern California must climb at least once on the San Jacinto Peak.
Geography
The San Jacinto Peak is located just west of the city of Palm Springs and east of the mountainous place Idyllwild - Pine Cove. The steep escarpment on its northern side rises above the Snow Creek at a length of 11 km around 3000 m. In the Continental United States, this corresponds to one of the strongest changes in height in relation to short distance.
From the summit of the mountain can behind the San Gorgonio Pass, San Gorgonio Mountain the highest point of the San Bernardino Mountains, are seen. Other areas are visible on clear days, the Coachella Valley, the Salton Sea and a large part of the Inland Empires up to Ontario. The summit itself can be detected even in the 209 km eastern Blythe 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: " Three Saints "). The term combines the highest mountains in the three largest mountains of Southern California together.
History
The Cahuilla called the San Jacinto Peak I a kitch or Aya Kaich, which in German means Smooth rocks. In their stories is located on the mountain Dakush the meteor to which the Indian tribe traces its origin.
In 1878, a group walked under the leadership of a farmer named Charles Thomas from the Garner Valley the mountain. Participants identified Mount San Jacinto Peak. In September 1874 a mountaineer had already reached the summit, which the newspaper, The San Diego Union-Tribune as " F. of Riverside " designated; this is the earliest recorded ascent of the mountain. The first successful ascent on the north-eastern escarpment succeeded in 1931 by Floyd Vernoy and Stewart White of Riverside.
The neighboring peak Jean Peak ( 3250 m) and Marion Mountain ( 3158 m) were appointed by the USGS topographer Edmund Taylor Perkins, Jr. in 1897. The peak is named after Jean Perkins ' lover and later wife Jean Waters, Marion Mountain after Perkins ' girlfriend named Marion Kelly. Another nearby peaks is Cornell Peak. As Perkins layered with the geologist Robert T. Hill in Round Valley mentioned Hill, Cornell Peak looked like the bell tower of Cornell University from. Later Perkins named the mountain in memory of it.
In 1931 and 1932, the San Jacinto Mountain Chamber of Commerce focused on the day from the work of Idyllwild - Pine Cove to the summit of San Jacinto peak and back in a race. The distance was 29 km, the altitude difference 1615 m. The race in 1931 was won by the Hopi Indians Tom Humphreys in 3:36:30 hours, a year later, he won the new edition of the race again, this time he needed 3:12 hours.
Near the summit there is a stone cottage, which was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps under the direction of Alfred Zarubicka, a Serbian- Croatian immigrants and stonemason from Idyllwild - Pine Cove.
Hiking
The San Jacinto Peak is easily accessible via several routes from Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument from. Another way to climb the summit provides 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 side represents a further ascent route starts in Idyllwild - Pine Cove and performs on the Marion Mountain Trail. Even the Cactus to Clouds Trail, an arduous climbing route provides a opportunity for advancement dar. Beginning at Palm Springs Art Museum must be overcome on the way to the summit of San Jacinto peak 3000 meters in altitude.