Tresidder Peak is a mountain in

Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ...

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. The mountain has two summits (peaks or arêtes), about half a mile (800 meters) apart, with the southern peak being the highest. The elevation of the south peak has not been exactly determined but is given as between and . The northern peak is identified on maps as Peak 10,450 and has an elevation of . It is the

line parent A peak's line parent is the closest higher peak on the highest ridge leading away from the peak's "key col". A col is the lowest point on the ridge between two summits and is roughly synonymous with pass, gap, saddle and notch. The highest col of ...

of Clouds Rest, and is named for Donald Tresidder, a former president of Stanford University who had a longtime association with Yosemite National Park. Cathedral Lakes are near.

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Tresidder Peak
at peakvisor.com Mountains of Yosemite National Park Mountains of Mariposa County, California Mountains of Northern California {{MariposaCountyCA-geo-stub