Jobs Sister is a mountain

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located near

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in northern

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Description

Jobs Sister is situated on the common border that

El Dorado County El Dorado County (), officially the County of El Dorado, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 191,185. The county seat is Placerville. The County is part of the Sacramento-Roseville-Ar ...

shares with

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, as well as the boundary

Eldorado National Forest Eldorado National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in the central Sierra Nevada mountain range, in eastern California. Geography Most of the forest (72.8%) lies in El Dorado County. In descending order of land area the others counties ...

shares with Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. It is set on the crest of the

Carson Range The Carson Range is a spur of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California and western Nevada that starts at Carson Pass and stretches north to the Truckee River near Verdi, Nevada. Geography The mountain range is about 50 miles (80 km) long a ...

which is a subset of the

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. At an elevation of 10,823-feet (3,299 meters), Jobs Sister is the second-highest summit in the Carson Range and the Tahoe Basin, and only 63 feet lower than

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Freel Peak Freel Peak is a mountain located in the Carson Range, a spur of the Sierra Nevada, near Lake Tahoe in California. The peak is on the boundary between El Dorado County and Alpine County; and the boundary between the Eldorado National Forest and t ...

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is significant as the summit rises 6,000 feet (1,830 meters) above Carson Valley in four miles. The

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traverses the northern slope of the mountain, providing an approach option. This landform's toponym has been officially adopted by the

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, and was named by the Whitney Survey on an 1881 map. It is named in association with Jobs Peak (1.3 mile east) which in turn is named for Mormon settler, Moses Job, who operated a store in Carson Valley in the 1850s.

Climate

According to the

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system, Jobs Sister is located in an

alpine climate Alpine climate is the typical weather ( climate) for elevations above the tree line, where trees fail to grow due to cold. This climate is also referred to as a mountain climate or highland climate. Definition There are multiple definitions ...

zone. Most

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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 them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the range.

Gallery

File:Jobs Sister.jpg, Jobs Sister centered File:Jobs Sister (10,823').jpg, Southwest aspect File:Freel Peak and Jobs Sister.jpg, Freel Peak (left) and Jobs Sister (right) seen from Jobs Peak File:Hawkins Peak vista north.jpg, Freel Peak, Jobs Sister, and Jobs Peak seen from Hawkins Peak. File:Star Lake, California.jpg, Jobs Sister (upper right) from Star Lake File:Jobs Sister and Jobs Peak.jpg, Jobs Sister (left) and Jobs Peak (right of center) seen from Freel Peak File:Carson Valley.jpg, Jobs Peak, Jobs Sister, and Freel Peak rise above Carson Valley File:US395SouthofCarsonCity.jpg, Jobs Peak and Jobs Sister (upper right corner) from southbound Highway 395

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South Lake Tahoe South Lake Tahoe is the most populous city in El Dorado County, California, United States, in the Sierra Nevada. The city's population was 21,330 at the 2020 census, down from 21,403 at the 2010 census. The city, along the southern edge of Lake ...

Mountains of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Mountains of El Dorado County, California Mountains of Alpine County, California Eldorado National Forest Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest Mountains of Northern California North American 3000 m summits

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