Mt. Ruskin
Striped Mountain

Thu, Aug 14, 2008

With: Michael Graupe
Rick Kent
Brice Wilson

 Etymology
Mt. Ruskin
Striped Mountain
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Striped Mountain (13,179 ft.)

Named by Bolton Brown in 1895

"Bolton C. Brown named it in July 1895. 'That nearest the pass is strikingly barred across its steep craggy summit with light streaks. As this is an unusually marked case of this peculiarity and as it seems well occasionally to have a mountain whose name bears some relation to its visible character, I called it Striped Mountain.' (SCB 1, no. 8, May 1896: 309; sketch map, 302.)"
- Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada

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