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Theodore Seixas Solomons (1870–1947) was an American explorer and early member of the Sierra Club. From 1892 to 1897 he explored and named the Mount Goddard, Evolution Valley and Evolution Basin region in what is now northern Kings Canyon National Park in eastern California.
The Theodore Solomons Trail is a long-distance trail in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, passing through Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks, and the Sierra National Forest.
Jan 25, 2024 · The Theodore Solomons Trail is a rigorous 280-mile, lower-elevation alternative to the much more popular and well-known John Muir Trail.
Jan 30, 2024 · Theodore Seixas Solomons was the only member of his storied family to follow mountaineering as a lifelong avocation, but he was not its first pathbreaker.
Sep 20, 2019 · The Theodore Solomons Trail was developed in 1974 as a lower elevation alternative to the John Muir Trail and named after early Sierra Club member and explorer Theodore Solomons.
A charter member of the Sierra Club, Theodore Solomons is known as "The Pioneer of the John Muir Trail." Sierra Nevada explorer, surveyor, map-maker, photographer, and writer. Theodore S. Solomons met Muir several times, and later wrote an article: Muir of the Nineties, in Yosemite Nature Notes, Volume xv , No. 5, May 1936.
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JMT history. Exploring and mapping of the High Sierra was done in the late 1800′s by men like Theodore Solomons, Bolton Brown and Joseph LeConte.
