Mount Bago

Mount Bago
Mount Bago
	East aspect, with Bullfrog Lake
Highest point
Elevation	11,870 ft (3,620 m)
Prominence	1,142 ft (348 m)
Parent peak	Peak 12565
Isolation	2.02 mi (3.25 km)
Listing	Sierra Peaks Section
Coordinates	36°46′12″N 118°26′17″W / 36.7699936°N 118.4380879°W
Naming
Etymology	Unknown
Geography
	Mount Bago Location in California Mount Bago Mount Bago (the United States)
Country	United States
State	California
County	Fresno
Protected area	Kings Canyon National Park
Parent range	Sierra Nevada
Topo map	USGS Mount Clarence King
Geology
Mountain type	Fault block
Rock type	Metamorphic rock
Climbing
First ascent	1896
Easiest route	class 2 East slope

Mount Bago is an 11,870-foot-elevation (3,620-meter) mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in the southeast corner of Fresno County, in northern California.^[3] It is situated in Kings Canyon National Park, 14 miles (23 km) west of the community of Independence, 2.3 miles west of the Kearsarge Pinnacles, and 2.4 miles southwest of Mount Rixford. Topographic relief is significant as the south aspect rises 3,675 feet (1,120 meters) above Junction Meadow in one mile. The John Muir Trail passes to the northeast of this remote geographical feature. The first ascent of the summit was made July 11, 1896, by Joseph Nisbet LeConte and Wilson S. Gould.^[5]

Climate

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Mount Bago is located in an alpine climate zone.^[6] Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Sierra Nevada mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks, causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the range (orographic lift). Precipitation runoff from the peak drains into tributaries of Bubbs Creek, which in turn is a tributary of the South Fork Kings River.

Mount Bago in upper right.
(Kearsarge Pinnacles and East Vidette in the distance to left.)
Mt. Bago above Charlotte Lake, from northeast on JMT.
Mount Bago and Bullfrog Lake viewed from Kearsarge Pass

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^ ^a ^b ^c "Bago, Mount - 11,870' CA". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
^ ^a ^b "Mount Bago". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
^ Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada, 1986, Wilderness Press, ISBN 9780899970479, page 10.
^ R. J. Secor, The High Sierra Peaks, Passes, Trails, 2009, Third Edition, Mountaineers Books, ISBN 9781594857386, page 160.
^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11. ISSN 1027-5606.