Jeds Overlook and Mt. Eddy
Oct. 8th, 2018 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goobergunchThe Sacramento River bends below Jeds Overlook (642').
Jedediah Smith (1799-1831) was the leader of the first white Americans to enter California from the East (specifically, St. Louis). Leaving Mission San Jose on 30 December 1827, he arrived here on 10 April 1828. Per his journal:
"I moved on with the intention of traveling up the Buenaventura (Sacramento River) but soon found the rocky hills coming in so close to the river as to make it impossible to travel. I went on in advance of the party and ascending a high point took of a view of the country.... Believing it impossible to travel up the river I turned into the valley and encamped on the river with the intention of crossing."
Using a coastal route, Smith became the first white explorer to travel over land from San Diego to the Oregon Country.
Mount Eddy (9025'), highest point of Trinity County, CA, the Klamath Mountains, and anywhere west of I-5, looms over the Deadfall Lakes. An ultra prominence peak.
From one ultra to another: the view of Mt. Shasta (14,162') from the summit of Mt. Eddy (9025'). Note the lenticular cloud forming atop Shasta's summit, and Black Butte (6358') in the foreground.
(Sadly this was the only photo I was able to take from Eddy's summit, as my phone decided to suddenly shed all of its power shortly above Deadfall Lakes. With 3% remaining I could do naught but aim it at Shasta and hope for the best.)
The highlight of my drive home was seeing the SpaceX launch while passing through Vacaville.
Jedediah Smith (1799-1831) was the leader of the first white Americans to enter California from the East (specifically, St. Louis). Leaving Mission San Jose on 30 December 1827, he arrived here on 10 April 1828. Per his journal:
"I moved on with the intention of traveling up the Buenaventura (Sacramento River) but soon found the rocky hills coming in so close to the river as to make it impossible to travel. I went on in advance of the party and ascending a high point took of a view of the country.... Believing it impossible to travel up the river I turned into the valley and encamped on the river with the intention of crossing."
Using a coastal route, Smith became the first white explorer to travel over land from San Diego to the Oregon Country.
Mount Eddy (9025'), highest point of Trinity County, CA, the Klamath Mountains, and anywhere west of I-5, looms over the Deadfall Lakes. An ultra prominence peak.
From one ultra to another: the view of Mt. Shasta (14,162') from the summit of Mt. Eddy (9025'). Note the lenticular cloud forming atop Shasta's summit, and Black Butte (6358') in the foreground.
(Sadly this was the only photo I was able to take from Eddy's summit, as my phone decided to suddenly shed all of its power shortly above Deadfall Lakes. With 3% remaining I could do naught but aim it at Shasta and hope for the best.)
The highlight of my drive home was seeing the SpaceX launch while passing through Vacaville.
