Mount Warren is a

summit A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous. The term (mountain top) is generally used only for ...

located in the

Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada ( ) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primari ...

mountain range, in

Mono County, California Mono County ( ) is a county (United States), county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 13,195, making it the fourth-least populous county in California. T ...

, United States. The mountain is set within the Hoover Wilderness, on land managed by

Inyo National Forest Inyo National Forest is a United States National Forest covering parts of the eastern Sierra Nevada of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada. The forest hosts several superlatives, including Mount Whitney, the highest p ...

. The peak is situated south of

Gilcrest Peak Gilcrest Peak is an summit located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Mono County of northern California, United States. The mountain is set within the Hoover Wilderness, on land managed by Inyo National Forest. Gilcrest Peak is situated ...

, northwest of Lee Vining Peak, and southeast of

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, which is the nearest higher neighbor.

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is significant as the summit rises above

Mono Lake Mono Lake ( ) is a Salt lake, saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin. The lack of an outlet causes Hypersaline lake, high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake ...

in 4.5 miles.

History

The mountain's toponym was officially adopted by the

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to honor Gouverneur K. Warren (1830–1882), topographer and

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during the

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. Mt. Warren is labeled on the 1901 Bridgeport Quadrangle map. The

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of the summit was made by Vitus Wackenreuder, a cartographer with the California Geological Survey, sometime during the 1860s before 1868.R. J. Secor, ''The High Sierra Peaks, Passes, Trails'', 2009, Third Edition, Mountaineers Books, , page 438.

Climate

Mount Warren is located in an

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zone. Most

weather front A weather front is a boundary separating air masses for which several characteristics differ, such as air density, wind, temperature, and humidity. Disturbed and unstable weather due to these differences often arises along the boundary. For ins ...

s originate in the

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, and travel east toward the Sierra Nevada mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (

orographic lift Orographic lift occurs when an air mass is forced from a low elevation to a higher elevation as it moves over rising terrain. As the air mass gains altitude it quickly cools down adiabatically, which can raise the relative humidity to 100% and cr ...

), causing moisture in the form of rain or snowfall to drop onto the range. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains to

Gallery

File:Mt. Warren, Mono Lake, CA.jpg, Mt. Warren (right of center), from Mono Lake. File:Conway Summit to Warren.jpg, North aspect of Mt. Warren (center), Gilcrest Peak (right), from

Conway Summit Conway Summit (elevation, el. 8,143 feet (2,482 m)) is a mountain pass in Mono County, California. It is traversed by U.S. Highway 395, which connects Bridgeport, California, Bridgeport and the East Walker River on the north side of the pass to ...

File:Conway Summit Area of Critical Environmental Concern (28175914533).jpg, Mt. Warren (left), Gilcrest Peak (right), from Conway Summit File:Lee Vining Peak, Mono Lake.jpg, Lee Vining Peak (centered) seen from Mono Lake. Mount Warren to the right. File:Tufas on Mono Lake.jpg, Lee Vining Peak and Mount Warren (right, with snowfields) seen from Mono Lake. File:17 27 174 mono lake.jpg, Mt. Warren centered in the distance, from Mono Lake.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Mount Mountains of Mono County, California Three-thousanders of the United States Mountains of Northern California Sierra Nevada (United States) Inyo National Forest

History

Climate

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