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West Vidette is a 12,533-foot summit in the Sierra Nevada within Kings Canyon National Park, notable for its steep north face rising 4,300 feet above Junction Meadow and for its prominent position near the John Muir Trail. Sierra Club members named it and neighboring East Vidette from a word meaning a mounted sentry, seeing the two pyramid-shaped peaks as if they stood guard above the valley. The mountain’s first recorded ascent came on September 19, 1926, by Norman Clyde, later celebrated for 130 first ascents in the Sierra Nevada. Its runoff drains to Bubbs Creek, a tributary of the South Fork Kings River.
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