Mark Twain wrote of camping at the base of this mountain, then called Castle Peak at the end of his hilarious chapter about Mono Lake.
“At the end of a week we adjourned to the Sierras on a fishing excursion, and spent several days in camp under snowy Castle Peak, and fished successfully for trout in a bright, miniature lake whose surface was between ten and eleven thousand feet above the level of the sea; cooling ourselves during the hot August noons by sitting on snow banks ten feet deep, under whose sheltering edges fine grass and dainty flowers flourished luxuriously; and at night entertaining ourselves by almost freezing to death. Then we returned to Mono Lake, and finding that the cement excitement was over for the present, packed up and went back to Esmeralda.”
mtbaxter - Oct 12, 2013 11:06 pm - Hasn't voted
Mark Twain's book 'Roughing It'Mark Twain wrote of camping at the base of this mountain, then called Castle Peak at the end of his hilarious chapter about Mono Lake.
“At the end of a week we adjourned to the Sierras on a fishing excursion, and spent several days in camp under snowy Castle Peak, and fished successfully for trout in a bright, miniature lake whose surface was between ten and eleven thousand feet above the level of the sea; cooling ourselves during the hot August noons by sitting on snow banks ten feet deep, under whose sheltering edges fine grass and dainty flowers flourished luxuriously; and at night entertaining ourselves by almost freezing to death. Then we returned to Mono Lake, and finding that the cement excitement was over for the present, packed up and went back to Esmeralda.”
Excerpt From: Twain, Mark. “Roughing It.”