Mt. Disappointment is a perfectly lovely peak in the San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles. So why did it get such a terrible name?
Located high in the San Gabriel Mountains, it’s the only peak in the 60-mile-long range with such an unflattering name.
“If you think about the 19th century overall, this is a time when the U.S. is rapidly expanding westward,” said, a historian at the University of Denver and author of “A History of America in 100 Maps.” “The federal government wants to know what’s out there.” The message behind these orders is clear, said Skyler Reidy, a PhD candidate studying California history at USC.
While surveying the Santa Susana Mountains earlier that year, the group’s leader, Lt. C.W. Whipple, noticed a prominent summit near the front of the San Gabriel range, a few miles northeast of what is now Altadena. Thinking it would make a good triangulation point, he sent his chief topographer and two assistants to set up a survey station on its peak in the dry heat of a July morning.
“If you are the federal surveyor and you want to name it Mt. Disappointment, I don’t know who is going to stop you,” he said.After scaling the San Gabriel Peak, the team summited Mt. Wilson, but on its way down the group’s meteorologist, Douglas Joy, got lost. He was eventually discovered, and rescued, at the bottom of a deep gorge later named Joy’s Ravine.
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