Twin Peaks, California

View of Twin Peaks from Virginia Peak, looking along the traverse between the two (2020-07-19). Photo by Bill Carpenter. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 2123 ft/647 m   Optimistic Prominence: 2163 ft/659 m   Line Parent: Excelsior Mountain   Key Col: Summit Lake    10,200 ft/3109 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 4.79 mi/7.7 km    Isolation Limit Point: 38.0642, -119.2742 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Dunderberg Peak  (ESE)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Sierra Nevada Range4: Yosemite-Ritter Sierra Nevada Range5: Northern Yosemite
Ridges/Divides	Pacific Crest Sierra Nevada Crest
Drainage Basins	San Joaquin San Francisco Bay Pacific-Western USA Pacific Ocean Walker Great Basin Internal Drainage-N.A. Worldwide Internal Drainage
Ownership	Land: Yosemite National Park/Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest Wilderness/Special Area: Yosemite Wilderness Area/Hoover Wilderness Area
Topo Map	Dunderberg Peak O38119a3 1:24,000
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
Dynamic Map  Twin Peaks   ( Key Col)    Other Peaks Click Here for a Full Screen Map

Other Photos

Horse Creek Glacier as seen traversing from Twin Peaks-East Peak to Twin Peaks (2020-10-18). Photo by Yao-Min Chen. Click here for larger-size photo.

South summit of Twin Peaks, where the summit register was located, taken from the north summit of Twin Peaks. Mount Conness is right behind. Left of Conness one can find Mount Ritter and Banner Peak. Right of Conness one can see the highest ridge of Yosemite NP, with Mount Lyell and Mount Maclure. Later we would traverse the ridge from the summit to Virginia Peak, on the lower right of the photo (2020-10-18). Photo by Yao-Min Chen. Click here for larger-size photo.

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