Dunderberg Peak | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 12,379 ft (3,773 m) NAVD 88 [1] |
Prominence | 1,334 ft (407 m) [1] |
Listing | Sierra Peaks Section [2] |
Coordinates | 38°03′53″N 119°16′28″W / 38.0646445°N 119.2743228°W [3] |
Geography | |
Location | Mono County, California, U.S. |
Parent range | Sierra Nevada |
Topo map | USGS Dunderberg Peak |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 1878 by Lt. M. M. Macomb and party of the Wheeler Survey [4] |
Easiest route | Hike ( class 1-2) [2] [4] |
Dunderberg Peak is located east of the Sierra Nevada crest [5] near the divide between the Mono Basin and East Walker River basin (Conway Summit) in Mono County, in eastern California in the southwestern United States. [3] The peak is in the Hoover Wilderness and is the highest point in Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. [1]
Dunderberg Peak, originally named Castle Peak, was renamed by a party of the Wheeler Survey after the mines upon its northerly slope in 1878. [6]
Dunderberg Peak is located in an alpine climate zone. [7] 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 ( orographic lift), causing moisture in the form of rain or snowfall to drop onto the range.