Mount Huethawali is a summit located in the

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, in

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of northern

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, US. It is situated 3.5 miles due east of Explorers Monument, 1.5 mile west of Grand Scenic Divide, and immediately southwest of Huxley Terrace. Surrounded by Garnet, Evolution, and Bass Canyons, Huethawali rises over above

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, and over 4,000 feet higher than the nearby

Colorado River The Colorado River ( es, Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The river drains an expansive, arid drainage basin, watershed that encompasses parts of ...

. The summit dome is composed of cream-colored

Permian The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last period of the Paleoz ...

Coconino Sandstone. This sandstone, which is the third-youngest stratum in the Grand Canyon, was deposited 265 million years ago as sand dunes. Below the Coconino Sandstone is reddish, slope-forming, Permian

Hermit Formation The Permian Hermit Formation, also known as the Hermit Shale, is a nonresistant unit that is composed of slope-forming reddish brown siltstone, mudstone, and very fine-grained sandstone. Within the Grand Canyon region, the upper part of the ...

, which in turn overlays the

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-Permian

Supai Group The Supai Group is a slope-forming section of red bed deposits found in the Colorado Plateau. The group was laid down during the Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian. Cliff-forming interbeds of sandstone are noticeable throughout the group. The Su ...

. Further down are strata of the cliff-forming Mississippian Redwall Limestone,

Cambrian The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...

Tonto Group The Tonto Group is a name for an assemblage of related sedimentary strata, collectively known by geologists as a ''Group'', that comprises the basal sequence Paleozoic strata exposed in the sides of the Grand Canyon. As currently defined, the T ...

, and finally

Proterozoic The Proterozoic () is a geological eon spanning the time interval from 2500 to 538.8million years ago. It is the most recent part of the Precambrian "supereon". It is also the longest eon of the Earth's geologic time scale, and it is subdivided ...

Unkar Group at river level. According to the

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system, Mount Huethawali is located in a

cold semi-arid climate A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds of semi-ar ...

zone.

History

The

first ascent In mountaineering, a first ascent (abbreviated to FA in guide books) is the first successful, documented attainment of the top of a mountain or the first to follow a particular climbing route. First mountain ascents are notable because they en ...

of the summit was made in August 1898 by William Wallace Bass and George Wharton James.John Annerino, ''Hiking the Grand Canyon'', 2017, Simon & Schuster, James originally named it ''Mount Observation'', but wrote that Indians called this mountain "Hue-tha-wa-li" (pronounced "we-the-wally"), which means White Rock Mountain. Some sources state that "Huethawali" is the Native American word for "observation point", while other sources state it translates as "white tower" or "white rock mountain" in the Havasupai language.Gregory McNamee, ''Grand Canyon Place Names'', 1997, Mountaineers Publisher, , page 48.John Annerino, ''Hiking the Grand Canyon'', 2017, Simon & Schuster, This butte's name was officially adopted in 1932 by the

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Gallery

File:Grand Canyon 2010 Mount Huethawali.jpg, South aspect File:Grand Canyon 2007 Mount Heuthawali.jpg, Mt. Huethawali and Huxley Terrace seen from

South Bass Trail The South Bass Trail is a hiking trail located on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park, located in the U.S. state of Arizona. Access The trail is accessible by use of United States Forest Service, U.S. Forest Service roads along the ...

File:Mount Huethawali near Bass.jpg, 1901, east aspect File:Mount Huethawali. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. 1901.jpg, circa 1901 File:Mount Huethawali and Huxley Terrace.jpg, Mount Huethawali (left) and Huxley Terrace (right),
with Powell Plateau in the distance.

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* Weather forecast
National Weather Service

Mount Huethawali photo
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