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The Palisades (or the '''Palisade Group''') are a group of peaks in the central part of the Sierra Nevada range in the US State of California . They are located about southwest of the town of Big Pine, California . The peaks in the group are particularly steep, rugged peaks and "contain the finest alpine climbing in California."Steve Roper, ''The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra'', Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1976, ISBN 0-87156-147-6 The group makes up about of the Sierra Crest, which divides the Central Valley watershed from the Owens Valley , and which runs generally northwest to southeast. Summitpost quotes Tom Browning, in ''Place Names of the Sierra Nevada'', as saying:
On the northeast side of the group lie the Palisade Glacier and the Middle Palisade Glacier , the largest Glacier s in the Sierra Nevada, and the southernmost glaciers in North America . These glaciers feed Big Pine Creek . Notable peaks of the group include four independentThis uses a Topographic Prominence cutoff of . See the Fourteener article for more information. Fourteener s:
and the following mountains in addition:
North Palisade has some additional subpeaks over ; see the North Palisade article for those summits. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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