Round Top
Elephants Back

Sat, May 31, 1997

With: Fred Weber
Kate Weber
Mark Weber
James Fan
Cindy Romer
Ming Siu
John Yong

 Etymology
Round Top
Elephants Back
 Story Photos / Slideshow Map Profile
Round Top later climbed Fri, Mar 23, 2001
Elephants Back later climbed Fri, Mar 23, 2001

Elephants Back (9,585 ft.)

Named by Goddard in 1855

"A rather fanciful descriptive name for a long, ridge-like mountain. (See photo and sketch in SCB 44, no. 7, Oct. 1959: 60.) George H. Goddard (Report, 1855) called it 'the Elephant' in his list of places along the route. A map of Alpine County, made about 1870, has it as 'Elephant Mountain.' The Wheeler Survey atlas sheet 56B, 1876-77, calls 'Elephant's Back.'"
- Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada
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