Last modified or updated February 13, 2012

Welcome to Pete's Thousand Peaks! This is the home page of Pete Yamagata!

The purpose of this web site is to promote peak climbing, hiking, and Earth travel, in a safe, enjoyable, successful, and responsible manner, throughout the Pacific West of the United States of America. I have personally completed now well over one thousand peak ascents, mostly in California, but also in other Western States. Doing similar numbers of hikes, I've perhaps driven over 400,000 miles of fuel efficient traveling and road trips, over modern super highways to riding on the worst imaginable 4WD tracks.

My current 1,365 peak ascents have been completed over some 726 separate summits. My climbing is concentrated mainly in the Sierra Nevada, with various other ascents throughout the Southwestern Desert, the Great Basin, Coastal Ranges, and with several peak ascents in the Cascades and the Rockies.

Being an avid Nikon photographer, I have captured perhaps one hundred and fifty thousand 35mm Kodachrome slide film pictures, digital images, and movies of the summit views, ascent routes, and travel features enroute. And, thousands of photographs plus hundreds of movie clips, with plenty of descriptive text, are displayed on this website!

I am also the author of the free-for-use, online Northern Sierra Peaks Guide, which details route directions on 86 peaks in or near the Northern Sierra Nevada, from roughly Adams Peak to Leavitt Peak. Having personally completed a total of over 300 peak ascents about the range of this Guide, all route descriptions therein are taken from notes made during my personal, actual, explorations.

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