Summary: Mount Tamalpais in Marin County is not impressive as mountains go. It’s no Mount Rainier, the centerpiece of the Pacific Northwest, no Mount Shasta, “as lonely as God and as white as the winter moon,” as the poet Joaquin Miller called it. The east peak of Tamalpais is only 2,571 feet above sea level. It would not even be much of a hill in the Sierra Nevada. But Tamalpais has something else.
