Tinker Knob

Tinker Knob is an mountain summit in Placer County, California, United States.

Description Tinker Knob is located south-southeast of Donner Pass and northwest of Lake Tahoe, on land managed by Tahoe National Forest. It is situated on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, with precipitation runoff from the peak draining west to North Fork American River and east to the Truckee River via Deep Creek and Cold Creek. Topographic relief is modest as the summit rises above North Fork American River in one mile. Neighbors include Anderson Peak northwest, Mount Lincoln to the northwest, and line parent Granite Chief is to the south. The Pacific Crest Trail traverses the peak, providing an approach option from Donner Pass or Palisades Tahoe, and inclusion on the Sierra Peaks Section peakbagging list generates climbing interest.

History

This landform's toponym has been officially adopted by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, and has appeared in publications since at least 1874.Overland Monthly Volume 12, (1874), p. 178Benjamin Parke Avery (1878), Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse, Hurd and Houghton, p. 100 The name commemorates James A. Tinker, a freight-hauling teamster whose road between Tinker's Station (now known as Soda Springs) and gold mines at Foresthill Divide passed below this peak to the west.Barry Parr (2014), Hiking the Sierra Nevada, Falcon Guides, , p. 149. More specifically, the landform's name is a humorous reference to a resemblance to Tinker's nose.Erwin Gustav Gudde (1960), California Place Names, University of California Press, p. 339

Climate According to the Köppen climate classification system, Tinker Knob is located in an alpine climate zone. Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean and travel east toward the Sierra Nevada mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the range.

Tinker Knob

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