Official VRMC List
The VRMC California Thirteeners list was developed independently from the other lists of the highest California peaks published on SummitPost.org. The VRMC list was the first such list published on the web (February 2000), it originates from a much more thorough analysis of the available data, and it has been painstakingly updated over the past 10 years as new data became available.
As a list of Thirteeners, it automatically incorporates a list of California Fourteeners as well as the Hundred Highest Mountains of California. However, the VRMC site contains separate pages listing the California Fourteeners, 50 Highest, 100 Highest, 4000-Meter Peaks, and 150 Highest.
There are also pages on the VRMC site describing the methodology as well as a separate list of interesting peaks that currently fail the VRMC criteria for inclusion (e.g., saddle depth less than 300'). You may also register there to keep track of your progress toward finishing the list.
Latest VRMC Site Feature (c. November 2009): Embedded interactive 3-D Google Earth maps:
There are still 19 mountains on the list (marked with asterisks) that are not yet represented here at SummitPost.org. I’ve already added descriptions for 20 that I’ve climbed, but I would encourage other California peakbaggers out there to help complete this task.
California Thirteeners
Rank | Peak Name | Official Elevation | Saddle Depth |
1 | Mt. Whitney | 14,491' or 4417m | 300m+ |
2 | Mt. Williamson | 14,375' or 4382m | 300m+ |
3 | White Mountain Peak | 14,246' or 4342m | 300m+ |
4 | North Palisade | 14,242' or 4341m | 300m+ |
5 | Mt. Shasta | 14,162' or 4317m | 300m+ |
6 | Mt. Sill | 14,153' or 4314m | 387' |
7 | Mt. Russell | 14,088' or 4294m | 300m+ |
8 | Split Mountain | 14,058' or 4285m | 300m+ |
9 | Mt. Langley | 14,026' or 4275m | 300m+ |
10 | Mt. Tyndall | 14,018' or 4273m | 300m+ |
11 | Middle Palisade | 14,012' or 4271m | 300m+ |
12 | Mt. Barnard | 13,990' or 4264m | 968' |
13 | Mt. Humphreys | 13,986' or 4263m | 300m+ |
14 | Mt. Keith | 13,975' or 4260m | 300m+ |
15 | Mt. Stanford (South) | 13,973' or 4259m | 300m+ |
16 | “Barrett Peak” | 13,962' or 4256m | 302' |
17 | Trojan Peak | 13,947' or 4251m | 738' |
18 | Mt. LeConte | 13,930' or 4246m | 300m+ |
19 | “Mt. Morgenson” | 13,927' or 4245m | 302' (279' to 344' by contours) |
20 | Mt. Agassiz | 13,893' or 4235m | 853' |
21 | Junction Peak | 13,888' or 4233m | 774' |
22 | Norman Clyde Peak | 13,855' or 4223m | 344' (272' to 338' by contours) |
23 | Mt. Mallory | 13,845' or 4220m | 463' |
24 | CalTech Peak | 13,832' or 4216m | 551' |
25 | Mt. Darwin | 13,831' or 4216m | 300m+ |
26 | Mt. Kaweah | 13,802' or 4207m | 300m+ |
27 | Mt. McAdie | 13,799' or 4206m | 538' |
28 | Mt. Winchell | 13,775' or 4199m | 669' |
29 | Mt. Morgan (South) | 13,748' or 4190m | 300m+ |
30 | Mt. Gabb | 13,741' or 4188m | 300m+ |
31 | Bear Creek Spire | 13,740' or 4188m | 300m+ |
32 | Red Kaweah | 13,737' or 4187m | 702' |
33 | “East Barnard” | 13,724' or 4183m | 486' |
34 | Mt. Mendel | 13,710' or 4179m | 554' |
35 | Mt. Abbot | 13,704' or 4177m | 896' |
36 | Black Kaweah | 13,680' or 4170m | 557' |
37 | Midway Mountain | 13,664' or 4165m | 300m+ |
38 | “Second Kaweah” | 13,661' or 4164m | 545' |
39 | Mt. Tom | 13,652' or 4161m | 300m+ |
40 | Milestone Mountain | 13,638' or 4157m | 758' |
41 | Table Mountain | 13,632' or 4155m | 541' |
42 | Mt. Ericsson | 13,615' or 4150m | 300m+ |
43 | UTM882683 | 13,615' or 4150m | 385' |
44 | Birch Mountain | 13,602' or 4146m | 300m+ |
45 | University Peak | 13,589' or 4142m | 300m+ |
46 | “Ed Lane Peak” | 13,576' or 4138m | 892' |
47 | Mt. Brewer | 13,570' or 4136m | 300m+ |
48 | Mt. Goddard | 13,568' or 4136m | 300m+ |
49 | Tunnabora Peak | 13,563' or 4134m | 610' |
50 | Mt. Dubois | 13,559' or 4133m | 300m+ |
51 | Palisade Crest | 13,553' or 4131m | 620' |
52 | “Milestone Mesa”* | 13,547' or 4129m | 581' |
53 | UTM794568 | 13,540' or 4127m | 446' |
54 | Thunder Mountain | 13,533' or 4125m | 564' |
55 | Cloudripper | 13,525' or 4122m | 896' |
56 | “Squaretop”* | 13,524' or 4122m | 302' (262' to 394' by contours) |
57 | Mt. Gayley | 13,510' or 4118m | 453' |
58 | Mt. Fiske | 13,503' or 4116m | 813' |
59 | Mt. Hale | 13,494' or 4113m | 659' |
60 | Mt. Pinchot | 13,494' or 4113m | 300m+ |
61 | Mt. Thompson | 13,494' or 4113m | 300m+ |
62 | Mt. Bolton Brown | 13,491' or 4112m | 574' |
63 | Mt. Pickering | 13,474' or 4107m | 883' |
64 | Mt. Versteeg | 13,470' or 4106m | 335' (281' to 347' by contours) |
65 | “Twelve Flags Peak” | 13,468' or 4105m | 340' |
66 | “Northwest Lamarck” | 13,464' or 4104m | 859' |
67 | Mt. Mills | 13,451' or 4100m | 509' |
68 | Montgomery Peak | 13,441' or 4097m | 300m+ |
69 | Mt. Newcomb* | 13,422' or 4091m | 604' |
70 | Mt. Haeckel | 13,418' or 4090m | 514' |
71 | “Keyhole Plateau” | 13,404' or 4086m | 328' (284' to 324' by contours) |
72 | Cardinal Mountain | 13,396' or 4083m | 600' |
73 | Mt. Jepson | 13,390' or 4081m | 390' |
74 | “Mt. Steven Jay Gould” | 13,385' or 4080m | 357' |
75 | “The Cleaver” | 13,383' or 4079m | 374' |
76 | Kaweah Queen* | 13,382' or 4079m | 541' |
77 | Mt. Wallace | 13,377' or 4077m | 349' |
78 | “Vagabond Peak” | 13,374' or 4076m | 349' |
79 | UTM809631* | 13,366' or 4074m | 358' (262' to 394' by contours) |
80 | “Point Powell”* | 13,366' or 4074m | 358' |
81 | Mt. Powell | 13,364' or 4073m | 545' |
82 | Mt. Hilgard | 13,361' or 4072m | 886' |
83 | The Thumb | 13,356' or 4071m | 610' |
84 | Mt. Jordan | 13,344' or 4067m | 667' |
85 | Black Giant | 13,330' or 4063m | 300m+ |
86 | Joe Devel Peak | 13,327' or 4062m | 449' |
87 | North Guard | 13,327' or 4062m | 568' |
88 | Royce Peak | 13,294' or 4052m | 909' |
89 | Black Mountain (South) | 13,291' or 4051m | 300m+ |
90 | Picture Puzzle | 13,291' or 4051m | 640' |
91 | UTM698439* | 13,284' or 4049m | 889' |
92 | Mt. McDuffie | 13,282' or 4048m | 719' |
93 | Deerhorn Mountain | 13,281' or 4048m | 666' |
94 | “Crumbly Spire”* | 13,267' or 4044m | 301' (267' to 307' by contours) |
95 | Aperture Peak | 13,265' or 4043m | 341' |
96 | Mt. Bradley | 13,264' or 4043m | 814' |
97 | Mt. Goethe | 13,264' or 4043m | 928' |
98 | “Mt. Tom Ross” | 13,253' or 4040m | 541' |
99 | Gendarme Peak | 13,252' or 4039m | 312' (292' to 332' by contours) |
100 | Feather Peak | 13,242' or 4036m | 755' |
101 | “South Basin Peak” | 13,240' or 4036m | 507' |
102 | South Guard | 13,232' or 4033m | 531' |
103 | “Adamson Point”* | 13,232' or 4033m | 358' (280' to 360' by contours) |
104 | UTM692591* | 13,228' or 4032m | 489' |
105 | “Mt. Carl Heller” | 13,225' or 4031m | 495' |
106 | Mt. Julius Caesar | 13,219' or 4029m | 479' |
107 | Mt. Warlow | 13,206' or 4025m | 561' |
108 | Mt. Emerson | 13,204' or 4025m | 791' |
109 | “Ruby Peak” | 13,188' or 4020m | 475' |
110 | UTM690535* | 13,186' or 4019m | 607' |
111 | Mt. Hitchcock* | 13,186' or 4019m | 463' |
112 | Acrodectes Peak* | 13,182' or 4018m | 300m+ |
113 | Basin Mountain | 13,181' or 4018m | 443' |
114 | Mt. Wynne | 13,179' or 4017m | 374' |
115 | Striped Mountain | 13,179' or 4017m | 541' |
116 | Mt. Young | 13,176' or 4016m | 387' |
117 | UTM528173 | 13,172' or 4015m | 318' (292' to 332' by contours) |
118 | Mt. Chamberlin* | 13,169' or 4014m | 413' |
119 | Mt. Ritter | 13,143' or 4006m | 300m+ |
120 | “Picture Peak” | 13,140' or 4005m | 305' (240' to 320' by contours) |
121 | Mt. Baxter | 13,136' or 4004m | 614' |
122 | Red Slate Mountain | 13,136' or 4004m | 300m+ |
123 | Diamond Peak | 13,127' or 4001m | 886' |
124 | “Checkered Demon” | 13,121' or 3999m | 523' |
125 | Mt. Lyell | 13,114' or 3997m | 300m+ |
126 | Mt. Gilbert | 13,106' or 3995m | 452' |
127 | UTM722049 | 13,104' or 3994m | 682' |
128 | Merriam Peak | 13,103' or 3994m | 882' |
129 | Charybdis | 13,096' or 3992m | 300m+ |
130 | Mt. Huxley | 13,086' or 3989m | 394' |
131 | Mt. Goode | 13,085' or 3988m | 922' |
132 | Seven Gables | 13,080' or 3987m | 300m+ |
133 | UTM888455* | 13,074' or 3985m | 518' |
134 | UTM762773* | 13,071' or 3984m | 518' |
135 | “Twin Peaks”* | 13,061' or 3981m | 456' |
136 | Mt. Dana | 13,057' or 3980m | 300m+ |
137 | Mt. Genevra | 13,054' or 3979m | 509' |
138 | Mt. Mary Austin | 13,051' or 3978m | 509' |
139 | UTM542055* | 13,041' or 3975m | 322' (281' to 321' by contours) |
140 | Mt. Barcroft | 13,040' or 3975m | 463' |
141 | Mt. Solomons | 13,034' or 3973m | 591' |
142 | “Polychrome Peak” | 13,018' or 3968m | 509' |
143 | UTM574131* | 13,012' or 3966m | 400' |
144 | “Wheeler Peak” | 13,012' or 3966m | 535' |
145 | Mt. Gould | 13,005' or 3964m | 300m+ |
146 | Kuna Peak | 13,002' or 3963m | 300m+ |
147 | Mt. Morgan (North) | 13,002' or 3963m | 300m+ |