North Palisade, California

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 14,248 ft / 4343 m
Subpeaks	Starlight Peak (14,200 ft/4328 m)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	37° 5' 39'' N, 118° 30' 52'' W 37.09419, -118.514467 (Dec Deg) 365411 E 4106394 N, Zone 11 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	California
County/Second Level Region	Fresno (Highest Point) Inyo
Links Search Engines - search the web for "North Palisade":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      North Palisade at SummitPost.org      North Palisade at ListsOfJohn.com      CoHP.org Trip Report for Fresno, CA by Scott Sullivan      CoHP.org Trip Report for Fresno, CA by Edward Earl      CoHP.org Trip Report for Fresno, CA by Edward Earl      CoHP.org Trip Report for Fresno, CA by Andy Martin      CoHP.org Trip Report for Fresno, CA by Craig Harris Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain North Palisade:      USA Lower 48 Range5 High Points (Rank #15)      USA/Canada Range4 High Points (Rank #15)      North America 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #63)      California 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #4)      California Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #52)      Western USA Peaks with 25 miles of Isolation (Rank #196)      Western Contiguous USA CoHPs (Rank #19)      Western USA CoHPs (Rank #24)      USA Lower 48 Range4 High Points (Rank #10)      2000-foot Prominence CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #163)      California County High Points (Rank #4)      CoHP High Five List (Rank #15)      Apex (Toughest) CoHPs (Rank #2)      United States 13,750-foot Peaks (Rank #43)      Sierra Club Sierra Peaks Section (Rank #3)      Sierra Peaks Section Emblem Peaks (Rank #3)      U.S. County High Points over 13,000 feet - 48 States (Rank #19)      Western States Climbers List (Rank #4)      U.S. County High Points over 13,000 feet (Rank #24) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        California County Summits (Suttle) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      1948-07-18 by Frederick Johnson (Unsuccessful)      1949-07-10 by Frederick Johnson (Unsuccessful)      1967-08-24 by Frederick Johnson      1984-08-23 by Greg Gerlach      1990 by David Kensiski (Unsuccessful)      2007-08-15 by Dennis Poulin      2007-08-16 by Dan Baxter      2009-09-07 by Greg Slayden (GPS Track)      2009-09-07 by Bob Bolton      2014-08-20 by Mike Maki      2014-09-13 by James Morehouse      2015-08-01 by JT Newgard (Unsuccessful)      2016-07-30 by Scott Larson      2016-08-20 by Rich Stephens      2017-06-03 by Eric Gilbertson      2017-07-13 by Mitch Mitchell (GPS Track)      2018-06-04 by Lou Hibbard      2018-08-22 by Evan Battaglia (Unsuccessful)      2018-08-23 by Andrew Kirmse (Unsuccessful)      2018-09-02 by Derek Tse (GPS Track)      2018-09-08 by Bob Sumner View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (186 total) Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to North Palisade      Elevation Ladder from North Palisade      Prominence Ladder from North Palisade

The North Palisade massif glows in evening alpenglow from Palisade Basin (2009-09-06). Photo by Grant Myers. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 2894 ft/882 m   Optimistic Prominence: 2894 ft/882 m   Line Parent: Mount Williamson   Key Col: Sawmill Pass    11,348 ft/3459 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 32.16 mi/51.76 km    Isolation Limit Point: 36.657088, -118.31203 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Mount Williamson  (SSE)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Sierra Nevada Range4: Central Sierra Nevada (Highest Point) Range5: Palisades (Highest Point)
Ridges/Divides	Pacific Crest Sierra Nevada Crest
Drainage Basins	Kings (HP) Tulare Lake Bed (HP) South San Joaquin Basin Internal Drainage-N.A. Worldwide Internal Drainage Owens Valley Great Basin Internal Drainage-N.A. Worldwide Internal Drainage
Ownership	Land: Kings Canyon National Park (Highest Point)/Inyo National Forest Wilderness/Special Area: Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness Area/John Muir Wilderness Area
Topo Map	North Palisade O37118a5 1:24,000
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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Other Photos

Aerial photo of North Palisade from a Cessna flying at 13,800 feet. Photo by Jim Earl (1997-03). Photo by Edward Earl.

Mt. Agassiz and North Palisade from Mt. Goode (1967-08-19). Photo by Frederick Johnson. Click here for larger-size photo.

Descending North Palisade on the Moore Variation ledge system (2014-09-13). Photo by James Morehouse. Click here for larger-size photo.

In the U Notch, early 1970s. Photo by Randy Hamm (1972). Photo by Dick Ellsworth. Click here for larger-size photo.

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