New peak page - Onaqui BM
Posted:
Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:36 amby harbor
Just made my first SP page. A friend from West Valley came out to Grantsville and hiked to the top of the Onaqui BM via West Canyon this week and came home to find there wasn't a page for it. If anyone has any feedback or more information regarding this not-too-popular peak please let me know. Thanks everyone. Glad I could give a little back to the SP Utah community.
-harbor
Onaqui BM link:
http://www.summitpost.org/onaqui-bm/853329
Re: New peak page - Onaqui BM
Posted:
Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:37 amby harbor
Also, if anyone knows how to pronounce Onaqui let me know. Thanks. =)
Re: New peak page - Onaqui BM
Posted:
Sat Jun 22, 2013 3:33 pmby Jesus Malverde
Hi harbor,
FWIW,
Google Fu doesn't seem to turn up much but I found this:
Utah Place Names (John W. Van Cott, 1990) has this on Onaqui Mountains (page 281):
"The name is Goshute Indian: "Ona" refers to salt and "qui" is a locative syllable."
My guess is that it's a simple phonetic pronounciation where the Ona portion is pronounced like O-nah and the qui portion is pronounced like Kee. That is: O-nah-kee.
Be well,
JM