what is this peak?

[eric1234]

I see this peak every time from the top of San Jacinto and am wondering if it has a name. Nothing comes up on the main sites (peakbagger.com, summitpost etc). It shows up as 9204 on topo and is located ~0.6 mi north of Miller Peak.

[zippetydude]

It looks like it doesn't have sufficient prominence to be considered a peak. From the topo it appears to rise just a few feet from the ridgeline that it is on. It has to rise 300 feet to be considered a peak.

z

[DaddyLongLegs]

Kristen Peak!

Here's a TR of our climb in 2011:
http://mountaineeringreview.blogspot.co ... -face.html

Kristen Peak wasn't our objective, but we passed very close to the summit.

[hvydrt]

it has to rise 300 feet to be considered a peak.

Not necessarily true. Cornell, Marion, Newton Drury, Jean, Miller and Folly are all less than 300' of prominence and still named peaks on the map.

The contours on that section of map are 80' so it does have a slight prominence, similar to Miller and Folly.

[neverwashasbeen]

I agree with Zip, not enough prominence to be considered a peak. I did think that the views were awsome though. As a point of interest, there is a plane crash site nearby.

[eric1234]

In socal, lots of bumps dont follow the 300ft prominence rule. Thats why I wondered if it was named.

Kristen Peak- is this the widely accepted name or did someone name it after their girlfriend? (Its ok if it is. Ive seen a few bumps in the san bernardinos named this way)

[DaddyLongLegs]

Kristen Peak- is this the widely accepted name or did someone name it after their girlfriend?

I heard it from a SAR veteran.

[Andy]

Its interesting that this post came up, as I've long wondered about that "peak" myself. I had also read Sam's report but never realized that the two were the same. Well, who's gonna go visit Kristen?

[RMRUpete]

This was given the name Kristen Peak by an verteran RMRU member back in 1966. Unoffical of course, but never heard anyone call it anything but Kristen Peak. It was named for his first daughter.

I climbed this in 1974 by going directly up the ridge from what we used to call Cold Canyon just before we climbed over the ridge onto the North Face below the chock stone. We actually spent the night on top and finished up to San Jacinto the next morning. It was in late March and there was lots of snow that was nice and hard for cramponing. It is an interesting climb on the ridge.

[lilbitmo]

Its interesting that this post came up, as I've long wondered about that "peak" myself. I had also read Sam's report but never realized that the two were the same. Well, who's gonna go visit Kristen?

I have a sneaky suspicion that it will be someone I know and they will drag your's truly along

We would have visited Kristen Peak that day we did the NE couloir of Miller but personally I couldn't convince my brain to go in any direction but up as it was too painful by that hour to consider anything but finishing but it's still one of my all time favorite climbs, there's nothing like going down, to go up

Hoping we get the snow needed to do some more routes that are less traveled in that part of the wilderness in the up coming fall/winter/spring