Ritter Range

Ritter Range
Ritter Range
	Mount Davis and the Ritter Range
Highest point
Peak	Mount Ritter
Elevation	13,143 ft (4,006 m)
Dimensions
Length	15 mi (24 km) NS
Width	9 mi (14 km) EW
Geography
	Location of Ritter Range in California
Country	United States
State	California
Region	Ansel Adams Wilderness
District	Madera County
Range coordinates	37°41′38″N 119°11′53″W / 37.6938223°N 119.1979189°WCoordinates: 37°41′38″N 119°11′53″W / 37.6938223°N 119.1979189°W
Parent range	Sierra Nevada
Geology
Age of rock	Cretaceous

The Ritter Range is a small mountain range within California's Sierra Nevada. Most of the mountain range lies within the Ansel Adams Wilderness.

The John Muir Trail passes by many lakes within the Ritter Range. The most prominent peaks of the Ritter Range are Mount Ritter, at 13,143 feet, Banner Peak, at 12,936 feet, Rodgers Peak, and the Minarets, a group of sharp peaks south of Mt. Ritter. Thousand Island Lake, , , , Minaret Lake, , and all lie within the Ritter Range, and are accessible by trail.

The range is named for Carl Ritter, who had been a teacher of Josiah Whitney when he was a student in Berlin in the 1840s."^[2]

The Ritter Range, near the Minarets and Minaret Lake, was the site of the plane crash of Steve Fossett in 2007.^[3]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "Ritter Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
^ Browning, Peter (1986) Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley: Wilderness Press. p. 183.
^ Fagan, Kevin (October 3, 2008). "Plane wreckage Fossett's - bone fragment found". San Francisco Chronicle.

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