Mount Johnson

Talkeenta Ranger station looking it up and calling me back...will update

To the top of the continent; discovery, exploration and adventure in sub-arctic Alaska. The first ascent of Mt. McKinley, 1903-1906
by Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940
Published 1908

Come on, Supertopo, the gauntlet is thrown... prove your worth.

I seem to remember Nick Parker telling me that he attempted Johnson.

can we figure out where Cook stood when he made the sketch?

Figure 30: Page 56 of Cook's 1906 diary, showing a sketch of the peaks (Mt. Church, Mt.
Grosvenor, etc, along the western edge of the Great Gorge. (See Fig.1&z7 fn 33.) Numbers
on the peaks are Cook's measured compass bearings. The notation “obs from amp th”
suggests that (at least part of) the drawing was made from the Fake Peak amphitheatre.
However, the raw bearing­data indicate that they were observed south of Glacier Point.
(See fn 26.)

Figure 12: Page 44 from Cook's Mount McKinley Diary, 1906, published here for the rst
time. (See z9 xF2[e].) Note the word “Lake” at rule [14]. The tiny circles with radiating
lines may indicate several positions from which photos were taken. The corresponding
photographs are indicated (by pages­opposite in Top of the Continent) at the right­hand
margin of the gure. All of Cook's various written notations are transcribed as they fall
above the rules on the page, left to right, as follows: [1] Ruth gl. [2] McK.; 12. [3] 10;
11. [4] 9; slate Black Pinnacles; N gl. [5] low table top. [6] 13000; shield; 14000. [7] 8
Peaks [written vertically]; 5; 12000. [8] yellow peaks; quartz; 26; 1000. [9] yellow peaks.
[10] Cerac. [11] 26; slate; passes into Fidele gl. [12] 16; camp; cr.; granite. [13] Little Mc
[written vertically]; 15 miles from Boat. [14] 11mi; Lake; 5000. [15] 6000. [17] 3 1/2 mi.
[18] cerac; cr. [19] Tokoshit; 5; 6000. [21] gl. face. [22] 5 mi; Sept 10.

There seems no doubt that Cook planned the hoax from the moment he decided to return to the Ruth.

Alright already... I'll do it, but Mark, Steve, and David have to promise to give it a "peer review" ahead of publication so that I can be assured of being mistake free...

Combing through Browne's Conquest of Mount McKinley. He makes a few interesting comments about some of the place names. Said he chatted with W.A. Dickey and asked him why he named the mountain McKinley. Apparent retaliation for spending too much time in the company of prospectors "who were rapid champions of free silver." Named it after the champion of the gold standard.

The main southern buttress of McKinley named for Daniel Carter Beard, "father of the world-celebrated Boy Scout movement, and a man who has endeared himself to every American man and boy through the pages of The American Boy's Handy Book."