Mount Gabb

{{short description|Mountain in California, United States}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Mount Gabb | image = File:Mount Gabb from East.jpg | image_caption = Mount Gabb as viewed from the east | elevation_ft = 13747 | elevation_ref = <ref name=pb>{{cite peakbagger|pid=2668|name=Mount Gabb, California |access-date=April 13, 2016}}</ref> | prominence_ft = 2581 | prominence_ref = <ref name=pb/> | location = [[Fresno County, California]], U.S. | range = [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada]] | map = California#USA | map_relief = 1 | map_caption = Location in California##Location in the United States | coordinates = {{coord|37|22|36|N|118|48|09|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = <ref name=gnis>{{cite gnis|id=260452|name=Mount Gabb|access-date=April 13, 2016}}</ref> | topo = [[United States Geological Survey|USGS]] Mount Abbot | first_ascent = June 1917 by A. L. Jordan and H. H. Bliss<ref name="Browning2011"/> | easiest_route = | listing = [[List of highest mountain peaks of California|California highest major peaks]] 11th }} '''Mount Gabb''' ({{convert|13747|ft}}) is in the central [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada]] in the U.S. state of [[California]].<ref name=topo>{{cite map|publisher=TopoQwest (United States Geological Survey Maps)|title=Mount Abbot, CA|url=https://www.topoquest.com/map.php?lat=37.376857&lon=-118.802492&datum=nad83&zoom=4&map=auto&coord=d&size=l|access-date=April 13, 2016}}</ref> Mount Gabb is in the [[John Muir Wilderness]] of [[Sierra National Forest]] and is named after [[William More Gabb]], a paleontologist and member of the Whitney Survey.<ref name="Browning2011">{{cite book|author=Peter Browning|title=Sierra Nevada Place Names: From Abbot to Zumwalt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9wCc9mTMdEC&pg=PA248|year=2011|publisher=Great West Books|isbn=978-0-944220-23-8|pages=86–87}}</ref>

The ascent up the south face is a class 2-3 climb from [[Lake Italy]]. Alternatively, the peak can be accessed from Upper Mills Creek Lake, and is a class 2 climb.<ref name="summitpost">{{cite web |url=https://www.summitpost.org/mount-gabb/152306 |title=Mount Gabb |access-date= August 14, 2018 |publisher=Summit Post |date= February 15, 2006}}</ref>

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