Mount Ritter, California

Elevation: 13,143 feet, 4006 meters

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 13,149 ft / 4008 m
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	37° 41' 21'' N; 119° 11' 58'' W 37.689058, -119.199557 (Dec Deg) 306060E 4173593N Zone 11 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	California
County/Second Level Region	Madera (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Mount Ritter":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      SummitPost.org Page for Mount Ritter      CoHP.org Trip Report for Madera, CA by Edward Earl      CoHP.org Trip Report for Madera, CA by Adam Helman      CoHP.org Trip Report for Madera, CA by Peter Maurer Lists that contain Mount Ritter:      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 4000 feet of Prominence (Unranked)      California Wilderness High Points (Rank #5)      Apex (Toughest) CoHPs (Rank #6)      California County High Points (Rank #6)      High Points of Counties Crossed by the Pacific Crest Trail (Rank #7)      Sierra Peaks Section Emblem Peaks (Rank #11)      California County Prominence Peaks (Rank #15)      USA Lower 48 Range4 High Points (Rank #17)      California Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #19)      USA/Canada Range4 High Points (Rank #26)      USA Lower 48 Range5 High Points (Rank #39)      Fifty Highest CoHPs in Lower 48 (Rank #40)      U.S. County High Points over 13,000 feet - 48 States (Rank #46)      Western Contiguous USA CoHPs (Rank #46)      Fifty Highest CoHPs (Rank #47)      U.S. County High Points over 13,000 feet (Rank #53)      Western USA CoHPs (Rank #53)      2000-foot Prominence CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #87)      Sierra Club Sierra Peaks Section (Rank #88) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        California County Summits (Suttle) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      1978-09-01 by Bill Hebert (Unsuccessful)      1993-08-15 by Bill Hebert (Unsuccessful)      1997-08-29 by Richard Carey      1999-10-03 by Adam Helman      2002-08-17 by Bill Hebert      2007-08-12 by Dennis Poulin      2009-07-18 by Coby King      2009-09-09 by Greg Slayden (GPS Track)      2011-08-13 by Lenah Parente (GPS Track)      2012-09-09 by Scott Angus (GPS Track)      2012-09-18 by Mike Maki (GPS Track) View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members. Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Mount Ritter      Elevation Ladder from Mount Ritter      Prominence Ladder from Mount Ritter

Mount Ritter and Banner Peak are reflected in Shadow Lake on a bluebird morning. Click here for original larger-size photo.
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Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Sierra Nevada Range4: Yosemite-Ritter Sierra Nevada (Highest Point) Range5: Ritter Range-East Yosemite (Highest Point) Range6: Ritter Range (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	San Joaquin San Francisco Bay Pacific Ocean
Ownership	Land: Inyo National Forest/Sierra National Forest Wilderness/Special Area: Ansel Adams Wilderness Area (Highest Point)
Topo Map	Mount Ritter O37119f2 1:24,000
Prominence	Clean Prominence: 3957 ft/1206 m Optimistic Prominence: 4022 ft/1226 m Key Col: 9186 ft/2800 m  (20 meter contour) Col elevation in range between 2780 and 2800 meters.     Topo Map: Mammoth Mountain O37119f1 1:24,000     Key Col Lat/Long: 37° 39' 12'' N; 119° 3' 22'' W     Key Col Map Links: Acme Mapper   MyTopo   Gmap4   MS-Research TopoQuest   Bing Maps   MSN/Encarta   Google Maps
Isolation	22.01 mi/35.43 km Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Ruby Peak  (SE) Isolation Limit Point: 37° 30' 28'' N; 118° 52' 10'' W     ILP Map Links: Acme Mapper   MyTopo   Gmap4   MS-Research TopoQuest   Bing Maps   MSN/Encarta   Google Maps
First Ascent	1872 John Muir (United States)
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