The
Ritter Range is a small mountain range within
California
's Sierra
Nevada. Most of the mountain range lies within the
Ansel Adams
Wilderness
. The Range is easily viewed from Minaret Summit
, which is accessible by auto. The Ritter Range is
most easily accessible from Mammoth Lakes
, where hiking trails lead to lakes throughout the
range. The
John Muir Trail
passes by many lakes within the Ritter Range.
The most prominent
peaks of the Ritter Range are Mount Ritter
, at 13,143 feet, Banner Peak
, at 12,936 feet, and the Minarets
, a group of sharp peaks south of Mt. Ritter.
Thousand Island
Lake
, Ediza Lake, Garnet Lake, Lake Catherine, Minaret Lake
, Cecile Lake, and
Shadow Lake all lie within the Ritter
Range, and are accessible by trail.
The range is named for
Carl Ritter, who
had been a teacher of
Josiah Whitney
when he was a student in Berlin in the 1840s."
The Ritter
Range, near the Minarets and Minaret
Lake, was the site of the plane crash of Steve Fossett
in 2007.
References
- Browning, Peter (1986) Place Names of the Sierra
Nevada. Berkeley: Wildnerness Press. p. 183.
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