James Sather Hutchinson (1867–1959) was a lawyer in San Francisco, California, a mountaineer and an environmentalist.

In 28 days, they completed a trip of 228 miles through the high mountains, including several previously unexplored sections.

[3] In 1920, he led an expedition from the Giant Forest to the Roaring River country, including the first trip over Colby Pass.

Of remote Black Kaweah on the Great Western Divide which he climbed at age 52, Hutchinson wrote, "The way those ragged rocks were broken, splintered, massed and piled together, helter-skelter, would have rejoiced the heart of a cubist artist.

[6] His career as an attorney in San Francisco lasted 60 years, and he appeared in court on his 90th birthday.