Mount Gould (California) Mount Gould's summit from its south
ridge, May 2009. |Elevation||13,011 ft (3,966 m) NAVD 88|
|Prominence||997 ft (304 m)| |Parent peak||Black Mountain|
|Location||Fresno and Inyo Counties California, U.S.| |Topo
map||USGS Mount Clarence King| |First ascent||July 20, 1890, by
J. N. Le Conte, Hubert Dyer, Fred Pheby, and C. B. Lakeman|
|Easiest route||Scramble, class 3 from Kearsarge Pass| Mount
Gould's north-south ridge straddles the boundary between Fresno
County and Kings Canyon National Park to the west, and Inyo
County and the John Muir Wilderness to the east. Its western
slopes drain to the Kings River, and its eastern slopes feed the
Owens River. Its nearest neighboring peaks are Dragon Peak to
the north across Gould Pass, and Nameless Pyramid to the south
across Kearsarge Pass. The first recorded ascent was in 1890 by
Joseph N. Le Conte, Hubert P. Dyer, Fred S. Pheby, and C. B.
Lakeman. They called it University Peak. They scrambled the
talus of Gould's south ridge, and climbed