Middle Palisade

Mountain of the Sierra Nevada in California, United States

Middle Palisade

Parent rangeSierra NevadaTopo mapUSGS Split MountainClimbingFirst ascentAugust 26, 1921 by Francis Farquhar and Ansel Hall^[7]Easiest routeEast Face: Exposed scramble, class 3^[8]

Middle Palisade is a 14,018-foot (4,273-meter) peak in the central Sierra Nevada mountain range in the U.S. state of California. It is a fourteener, and lies on the Sierra Crest as part of the Palisades group, a group of prominent Sierra Nevada mountain summits that includes multiple other fourteeners, approximately 12 miles (19 km) southwest of the town of Big Pine. Middle Palisade is the twelfth highest peak in California.

Middle Palisade's eastern flank hosts the Middle Palisade Glacier, lying above the South Fork of Big Pine Creek. To Middle Palisade's west lie the Palisade Lakes, Palisade Creek, and the John Muir Trail as it ascends south towards Mather Pass.

Several routes involving exposed scrambling class 3 and/or easy technical rock climbing (class 4) exist on the various flanks of Middle Palisade. Some routes involve travel on the Middle Palisade Glacier. The easiest route involves scrambling (class 3) up a chute on the east face of the peak.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b "Middle Palisade, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
^ "Key Col for Middle Palisade". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
^ "California 14,000-foot Peaks". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
^ "Sierra Peaks Section List" (PDF). Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
^ "Western States Climbers Qualifying Peak List". Climber.org. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
^ "Middle Palisade". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
^ Farquhar, Francis P. (1926). Place Names of the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
^ ^a ^b Roper, Steve (1976). The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. pp. 216–217. ISBN 978-0871561473.

External links

"Middle Palisade". SummitPost.org.

California 14,000-foot summits

Sierra Nevada

Mountains

Peaks >14,000 ft	Whitney Williamson North Palisade Sill Russell Split Langley Tyndall Muir Middle Palisade
Northern peaks	Lola Castle Granite Chief Rose Tallac Pyramid Freel
Central peaks	Red Lake Round Top Mokelumne Sonora Leavitt Dana Lyell Banner Ritter Mammoth
Southern peaks	Humphreys Tom Bear Creek Spire Darwin Agassiz Kaweah Brewer Olancha Kern Double
Climbing	Peak list First ascents

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Mono
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Oroville
Isabella
Donner
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Shaver
Huntington
Florence
Edison
Wishon
Courtright
Tenaya
Mammoth
Bass
Crowley
Convict
Hell for Sure

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areas

National parks and monuments	Kings Canyon Sequoia Yosemite Devils Postpile Giant Sequoia
National forests	Eldorado Humboldt–Toiyabe Inyo Lake Tahoe Basin Lassen Plumas Sequoia Sierra Stanislaus Tahoe
Wilderness areas	Ansel Adams Bright Star Bucks Lake Carson–Iceberg Chimney Peak Dinkey Lakes Domeland Emigrant Golden Trout Hoover Ishi Jennie Lakes John Krebs John Muir Kaiser Kiavah Mokelumne Monarch Mount Rose Owens Peak Owens River Headwaters Sacatar Trail Sequoia-Kings Canyon Yosemite
State parks	Burton Creek Calaveras Big Trees D. L. Bliss Donner Memorial Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point Emerald Bay Grover Hot Springs Lake Tahoe Nevada Plumas-Eureka South Yuba River Van Sickle

Communities

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Trails

v t e John Muir Wilderness
Mountains	Abbot Agassiz Baldwin Baxter Bloody Cirque Crocker Dade Four Gables Goodale Graveyard Herlihy Hilgard Hopkins Humphreys Huntington Hutton Izaak Walton Julius Caesar Kearsarge Laurel Middle Palisade Mills Morgan Morrison Muir Norman Clyde North Palisade Palisade Crest Pilot Knob Red and White Red Slate Sawmill Point Seven Gables Sill Split Stanford Starr Temple Crag Thunderbolt Tom Tyndall University Whitney Williamson
Rivers	Bishop Creek North Fork Kings River Morgan Creek Rock Creek South Fork San Joaquin River
Lakes	Dingleberry Disappointment Hell for Sure Loch Leven Lone Indian Mills Nüümü Hu Hupi Pee Wee Virginia
Trails	John Muir Trail Pacific Crest Trail

v t e Kings Canyon National Park
Mountains	Acrodectes Agassiz Baxter Brewer Charlotte Dome Clarence King Cotter Darwin Farquhar Goddard Gould Junction Keith Middle Palisade Milestone Norman Clyde North Palisade Palisade Crest Palisades Sill Split Stanford Table Thunderbolt Triple Divide Thunder University Winchell
Giant sequoias	Boole Tree Cedar Grove Converse Basin Grove General Grant Tree General Grant Grove Ishi Giant Redwood Mountain Grove Robert E. Lee Tree
Historic places	Barton–Lackey Cabin Gamlin Cabin Shorty Lovelace Historic District Wilsonia Historic District
Other attractions	Charlotte Lake Darwin Glacier Deadman Canyon Forester Pass Generals Highway Great Western Divide John Muir Trail Kern Plateau salamander Kings River slender salamander Martha Lake Muir Pass Rae Lakes
People	John Muir Stephen T. Mather
Nearby places	Hume Yokuts Valley Independence Auberry Fresno
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