Wright Mountain Pine Mountain Dawson Peak Fri, Jan 12, 2007		Etymology Wright Mountain Pine Mountain Dawson Peak	Story	Photos / Slideshow	Map	Profile

A very common place name in California.

Name first appears on USGS Southern California Sheet #1 (1901).

Peak was on the original 1946 HPS Peak List. Weldon Heald climbed this peak in 1935."

- HPS Summit Signatures

"The existence of almost twenty varieties of true pines (Pinus spp.) in the state and the great commercial value of a number of them have made this tree one of the most popular for naming places. About two hundred physical features bear some form of the name Pine on the maps, and many more are so called locally."

- Erwin G. Gudde, California Place Names