Mount Wood (California)

This geographical feature was named in 1894 by Lieutenant Nathaniel Fish McClure who prepared a map of Yosemite Park for use by Army troops. The toponym honors Captain Abram Epperson Wood, 4th Cavalry US Army, the first acting military superintendent of Yosemite National Park from 1891 to 1893, shortly before he died in 1894. The US Army had jurisdiction over Yosemite National Park from 1891 to 1914, and each summer 150 cavalrymen traveled from the Presidio of San Francisco to patrol the park. This landform's toponym has been officially adopted by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. ==Climate==

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Mount Wood 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. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains into Parker and Alger Creeks, both of which are tributaries of Rush Creek. ==Gallery==

File:Mount Wood.jpg|Southeast aspect viewed from June Mountain ski area File:Parker Peak from the June Lake Loop road.jpg|Mount Wood (left of center), Parker Peak, Koip Peak File:Mount Wood from Grant Lake.jpg|East aspect of Mount Wood seen from Grant Lake File:Parker Peak, Mono County CA.jpg|Mount Wood, Parker Peak, with Koip Peak in upper right corner File:Parker Peak.jpg|Mount Wood and Parker Peak seen from Panum Crater File:Stitched shot of the road leading to June Lake.jpg|Mount Wood, Parker Peak, Koip Peak, and Mount Lewis File:Parker Peak from Rush Creek Trail.jpg|Southeast aspect of Mt. Wood seen from Rush Creek Trail near Spooky Meadow on Carson Peak. Wood is the highest peak to the right. File:Parker, Lewis,Hwy 158.jpg|Mount Wood (furthest to left), Parker Peak, Koip Peak, and Mount Lewis from June Lake Loop File:A Glorious Greeting (24993846503).jpg|Mount Wood directly under the moon File:Mount Wood and Parker Peak from the northeast.jpg ==See also==