Mount Eddy is the highest peak of the

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, a

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of the

Klamath Mountains The Klamath Mountains are a rugged and lightly populated mountain range in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon in the western United States. As a mountain system within both the greater Pacific Coast Ranges and the California Coast ...

System, located in

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, and Trinity County in northern

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. The mountain is in the Mount Eddy RNA, a

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on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, a unit of the

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The summit rises to an elevation of , and is the highest point in Trinity County, the ninth most prominent peak in California, and the highest summit west of

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in the United States. The peak is west of Mount Shasta City and the massive

Mount Shasta Mount Shasta ( Shasta: ''Waka-nunee-Tuki-wuki''; Karuk: ''Úytaahkoo'') is a potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At an elevation of , it is the second-highest peak in the Cascades ...

volcano. It is protected within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The mountain receives heavy snowfall during the winter due to its altitude. The mountain is named in honor of Olive Paddock Eddy, who is mistakenly held to be the first woman to climb Mount Shasta. She was 8 months pregnant at the time that she is credited with climbing the volcano. Harriet Catherine Eddy was actually the first woman to summit the mountain. Nelson Harvey Eddy arrived in the area from New York State in 1856. He later became a successful rancher in the Shasta Valley. The original

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name might have been ''Num-mel-be-le-sas-pam'' or "west blaze mountain". Mount Eddy, California

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Mount Eddy Mount Eddy is the highest peak of the Trinity Mountains, a mountain range of the Klamath Mountains System, located in Siskiyou County, and Trinity County in northern California. The mountain is in the Mount Eddy RNA, a Research Natural Area ...

Mountains of Siskiyou County, California Mountains of Trinity County, California

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