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Mount Saint Helena has had an explosive history of pyroclastic flows that resulted in California's Petrified Forest.
Mount Saint Helena, originally named Kanamota ("Human Mountain") by the Wappo, and later Mount Mayacamas by Spanish colonists, was renamed by a Russian survey party who ascended the peak in 1841. They left a copper plate on the
File:Mount Saint Helena (2007-10-08).JPG, Mount Saint Helena
File:Mount Saint Helena 2.JPG, Another view of the mountain
File:Monument on the site of Robert Louis Stevenson's cabin in Robert Louis Stevenson State Park.JPG, Robert Louis Stevenson monument in Robert Louis Stevenson State Park
File:Calistoga from mt st helena.jpg, Calistoga viewed from Mount Saint Helena
File:Northern Napa Valley viewed from Mount Saint Helena.JPG, Northern Napa Valley viewed from Mount Saint Helena
File:View from Mount Saint Helena, California 2.JPG, A view from the mountain
File:View from Mount Saint Helena 5.JPG, Another view
File:View from Mount Saint Helena.JPG, Another view
File:MtStHelenaTreeFrame.jpg, View after 2017 fire
File:MtStHelenaSnow.jpg, Snow view
Wappo
The Wappo (endonym: ''Micewal'') are an indigenous people of northern California. Their traditional homelands are in Napa Valley, the south shore of Clear Lake, Alexander Valley, and Russian River valley. They are distantly related to the Yuki ...
: Kanamota, "Human Mountain") is a peak in the Mayacamas Mountains with flanks in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties of California. Composed of uplifted 2.4-million-year-old volcanic rocks from the Clear Lake Volcanic Field
The Clear Lake Volcanic Field is a volcanic field beside Clear Lake in California's northern Coast Ranges. The site of late-Pliocene to early Holocene activity, the volcanic field consists of lava domes, cinder cones, and maars with eruptive p ...
, it is one of the few mountains in the San Francisco Bay Area to receive any snowfall
Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout ...
during the winter.
The mountain has five peaks, arranged in a rough "M" shape. Its highest point, North Peak, is in Sonoma County. The second-tallest, immediately east of the main summit, is the highest point in Napa County. The headwaters of the Napa River arise on the southeast slope of Mount Saint Helena.
History
Mount Saint Helena has had an explosive history of pyroclastic flows that resulted in California's Petrified Forest.
Mount Saint Helena, originally named Kanamota ("Human Mountain") by the Wappo, and later Mount Mayacamas by Spanish colonists, was renamed by a Russian survey party who ascended the peak in 1841. They left a copper plate on the summit
A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topography, topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous.
The term (mountain top) is generally used ...
inscribed with the date of their visit and the name of Princess Helena de Gagarin, wife of Alexander G. Rotchev, the commanding officer of Fort Ross.
The peak is accessible by hiking trails leading from Robert Louis Stevenson State Park
Robert Louis Stevenson State Park is a California state park, located in Sonoma, Lake and Napa counties. The park offers a hike to the summit of Mount Saint Helena from which much of the Bay Area can be seen. On clear days it is possible to se ...
. The trails are approximately long.
Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne spent the summer of 1880 honeymoon
A honeymoon is a vacation taken by newlyweds immediately after their wedding, to celebrate their marriage. Today, honeymoons are often celebrated in destinations considered exotic or romantic. In a similar context, it may also refer to the phase ...
ing in an abandoned mining camp on Mount Saint Helena. Stevenson's book ''The Silverado Squatters
''The Silverado Squatters'' (1883) is a Travel literature, travel memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson of his two-month honeymoon trip with Fanny Vandegrift (and her son Lloyd Osbourne) to Napa Valley, California, in 1880.
Background
In July 1879, ...
'' describes his experiences while living there. A state park was named after him near here.
Representation in other media
The mount is described by Ambrose Bierce in hisghost story
A ghost story is any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them."Ghost Stories" in Margaret Drabble (ed.), ''Oxford Companion to English Literature'' ...
'' The Death of Halpin Frayser''. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the '' Earthsea'' fantasy series. She was ...
's novel ''Always Coming Home
''Always Coming Home'' is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. It is in parts narrative, pseudo-textbook and pseudo-anthropologist's record. It describes the life and society of the Kesh people, a cultural group ...
'' is about a post-apocalyptic society that considers Mount Saint Helena sacred.
Views from the summit
See also
*List of summits of the San Francisco Bay Area
This is a list of named summits in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area that are more than above sea level. Note that there are no natural features above in the city of San Francisco.
Unless otherwise referenced, all data are from the Geograp ...
References
External links
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Helena, Mount Mayacamas Mountains Mountains of Lake County, California Mountains of Napa County, California Mountains of Sonoma County, California Mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area Mountains of Northern California