(11,049 ft.)

(10,452 ft.)

(10,067 ft.)

Named by Wheeler Survey in 1878

"Monument Peak is located on the line between Nevada and California, and was used as a triangulation point by the 1863 Kidder-Ives survey of that line. (Maule, 7.) The Wheeler Survey placed the name on the 1878 map."
- Barbara Lekisch, Tahoe Place Names

(8,598 ft.)

(8,569 ft.)

(8,211 ft.)

(7,762 ft.)

(7,703 ft.)

(7,139 ft.)

(7,058 ft.)

(6,758 ft.)

(6,282 ft.)

(6,271 ft.)

"Named after a heap of boulders (originally over five feet tall), used as a check point for surveyors as they first mapped the area early this century.

Name first appears on USFS Cleveland National Forest map (1926).

Peak was on the original 1946 HPS Peak List. Weldon Heald climbed this peak in 1940."

- HPS Summit Signatures

(5,987 ft.)

(5,980 ft.)

(5,688 ft.)

(5,626 ft.)

(5,587 ft.)

(5,455 ft.)

(5,442 ft.)

(5,367 ft.)

(5,290 ft.)

"Named by the San Bernardino Historical Society in 1931 when it placed a monument in honor of Padre Francisco Tomas Hermenegildo Garces (1738-81). Garces blazed the first (and nearly waterless) trail across the Colorado Desert (1771). It was cursed as "El Camino del Diablo", and later was known as the "Old Spanish Trail". Garces accompanied the expedition of Juan Bautista de Anza (1735-88), and described the view from this summit in his diary (1776). The marker has since been destroyed by motorized vandals.

Name first appears on USFS San Bernardino National Forest map (1965).

Peak was added to the HPS Peak List in 1965."

- HPS Summit Signatures

(5,216 ft.)

(5,036 ft.)

(4,983 ft.)

(4,834 ft.)

(4,589 ft.)

(4,340 ft.)

(3,956 ft.)

(3,891 ft.)

(3,320 ft.)

(2,620 ft.)

(2,453 ft.)

(2,333 ft.)

(2,057 ft.)

(1,906 ft.)

(1,741 ft.)

(1,158 ft.)

(994 ft.)

(153 ft.)


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