Thunder Mountain, California

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 9414 ft / 2869 m
Subpeaks	Thunder Mountain-West Peak (9408 ft/2868 m)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	38° 40' 36'' N, 120° 5' 7'' W 38.676733, -120.08537 (Dec Deg) 753551 E 4284936 N, Zone 10 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	California
County/Second Level Region	Amador (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Thunder Mountain":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Thunder Mountain (CA) at SummitPost.org      Thunder Mountain at ListsOfJohn.com      Weather for Thunder Mountain at Mountain-Forecast.com      CoHP.org Trip Report for Amador, CA by Peter Maurer      CoHP.org Trip Report for Amador, CA by Scott Surgent      CoHP.org Trip Report for Amador, CA by Loro Paterson      CoHP.org Trip Report for Amador, CA by Robert Greene Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Thunder Mountain:      California County High Points (Rank #16)      Western Contiguous USA CoHPs (Rank #191)      Western USA CoHPs (Rank #204) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        California County Summits (Suttle)
Ascent Info Total successful ascents logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 253      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 236) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      1999-10-19 by JohnE Sarna      2000-08-11 by Scott Surgent      2007-07-22 by Patrick Wright      2014-08-16 by Marcus Sierra      2014-10-18 by Sam Grant (GPS Track)      2015-06-21 by Patrick Bergeron (GPS Track)      2016-08-21 by William Inman      2016-08-27 by Paul Maurin      2017-09-10 by Dave Covill      2018-06-24 by Mihai Giurgiulescu (GPS Track)      2018-07-15 by Joe Merlone      2018-07-22 by Greg Sweel      2018-08-11 by Leif Anderson      2018-08-18 by Kimberly St.Clair      2018-11-17 by Lisa Barboza (GPS Track)      2019-04-20 by Gene Mattos (GPS Track)      2019-06-19 by Redd Sea      2019-11-24 by Saif Choudhary      2020-06-20 by Chris Halsch      2020-07-11 by Dylan Kilby (GPS Track)      2020-07-15 by Rob Houghton (GPS Track)      2020-07-16 by Zach Smith      2020-08-07 by Quincy Koetz      2020-08-23 by Brett Marciasini (GPS Track)
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Silver Lake from Thunder Mountain, CA (2013-07-04). Photo by Jerry Beals. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 330 ft/100 m   Optimistic Prominence: 370 ft/112 m   Key Col: 9080 ft/2768 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 1.27 mi/2.05 km    Isolation Limit Point: 38.6675, -120.065 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Thimble Peak  (SE)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Sierra Nevada Range4: Lake Tahoe-Sonora Pass Sierra Nevada Range5: Mokelumne Wilderness Area
Drainage Basins	Sacramento San Francisco Bay Pacific-Western USA Pacific Ocean
Ownership	Land: Eldorado National Forest
Topo Map	Caples Lake O38120f1 1:24,000
Ski Area	Kirkwood
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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Other Photos

Thunder Mountain (2015-09-06). Photo by Brad Larson. Click here for larger-size photo.

Postcard from 50s. Photo by Kir Pridatko. Click here for larger-size photo.

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