Sierra Club Bulletin. 



Vol. V. San Francisco, June, 1904. No. 2. 



MOUNT WHITNEY AS A SITE FOR A METE- 

 OROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY. 



By Alexander G. McAdie, Professor of Meteorology. 



(From Monthly Weather Review for November, 1903.) 



In reply to a letter dated June 15, 1903, from the 

 Chief of the Weather Bureau, asking for a report on the 

 advantages and disadvantages of Mt. Whitney as a site 

 for a meteorological observatory in connection with the 

 proposed astrophysical observatory, the accompanying 

 notes based on observations made during a hasty trip 

 to the summit in July, 1903, in company with the Sierra 

 Club of San Francisco were submitted. 



Accessibility. — Mt. Whitney is situated in latitude 

 36° 34' 33" north, and longitude 118° 1/ 32" west. It 

 may be reached in several ways. 



I. From Lone Pine on the Carson and Colorado 

 Railroad, along the county roads to Carroll Creek, up 

 zigzags of a trail, across Cottonwood Creek to Horseshoe 

 Meadow, a climb of nearly 5,000 feet in ten miles, and 

 thence by trail to Volcano Mountain. 



II. By trail from the Kern River, at its southern 

 end, working north along the Kern River to the East 

 Fork, thence south to Crabtree Meadow, thence to Lang- 



