Dad’s quest to name peak after son on hold

A South Lake Tahoe father still desires to name a peak in Desolation Wilderness after his son, but doing so is in limbo.

Ryan Shreve

The idea was Mitch Underhill’s. Underhill and Ryan Shreve were best friends and firefighters. Shreve died in 2003 at the age of 24 from second impact syndrome following a wakeboarding accident on Folsom Lake. Underhill died last year.

“Shortly after Mitch died, the USGS met and determined that our application to name an unnamed geologic feature did not meet the 1999 Wilderness Act’s requirements,” Mike Shreve, Ryan’s dad, told Lake Tahoe News. “So now without Mitch with us, I have had little excitement to go after other mapmakers and Google Earth to have the name changed on their sites. I will pursue these options this winter.”

The goal is to have Peak 9441 renamed Mount Ryan.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report