Mount Bago

Mount Bago is an 11,870-foot-elevation (3,620-meter) mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in the southeast corner of Fresno County, in northern California.[3] It is situated in Kings Canyon National Park, 14 miles (23 km) west of the community of Independence, 2.3 miles west of the Kearsarge Pinnacles, and 2.4 miles southwest of Mount Rixford. Topographic relief is significant as the south aspect rises 3,675 feet (1,120 meters) above Junction Meadow in one mile. The John Muir Trail passes to the northeast of this remote geographical feature. The first ascent of the summit was made July 11, 1896, by Joseph Nisbet LeConte and Wilson S. Gould.[5]

Mount Bago
East aspect, with Bullfrog Lake
Highest point
Elevation11,870 ft (3,620 m)[1]
Prominence1,142 ft (348 m)[1]
Parent peakPeak 12565[2]
Isolation2.02 mi (3.25 km)[2]
ListingSierra Peaks Section
Coordinates36°46′12″N 118°26′17″W[3]
Naming
EtymologyUnknown[4]
Geography
Mount Bago is located in California
Mount Bago
Mount Bago
Location in California
Mount Bago is located in the United States
Mount Bago
Mount Bago
Mount Bago (the United States)
LocationKings Canyon National Park
Fresno County, California, U.S.
Parent rangeSierra Nevada
Topo mapUSGS Mount Clarence King
Geology
Mountain typeFault block
Type of rockMetamorphic rock
Climbing
First ascent1896
Easiest routeclass 2[2] East slope

Climate

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Mount Bago is located in an alpine climate zone.[6] 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 the peak drains into tributaries of Bubbs Creek, which in turn is a tributary of the South Fork Kings River.

See also
Mount Bago in upper right.
(Kearsarge Pinnacles and East Vidette in the distance to left.)
Mt. Bago above Charlotte Lake, from northeast on JMT.

References
  1. "Mount Bago, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  2. "Bago, Mount - 11,870' CA". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  3. "Mount Bago". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  4. Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada, 1986, Wilderness Press, ISBN 9780899970479, page 10.
  5. R. J. Secor, The High Sierra Peaks, Passes, Trails, 2009, Third Edition, Mountaineers Books, ISBN 9781594857386, page 160.
  6. Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11. ISSN 1027-5606.
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