Mount Gould is a thirteener on the Sierra crest, just north of the Kearsarge Pass.

[5] The first recorded ascent was in 1890 by Joseph N. LeConte, Hubert P. Dyer, Fred S. Pheby, and C. B. Lakeman.

They scrambled the talus of Gould's south ridge, and climbed the more solid rock of its summit block.

This route, by way of the Kearsarge Pass Trail from the Onion Valley trailhead, remains the easiest and most accessible approach.

The next day he led a second climb of Mount Gould and named it for his companion, Wilson S.