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Middle Palisade is a 14,018-foot mountain on California’s central Sierra Crest in the rugged Palisades, about 12 miles southwest of Big Pine. Counted among California’s fourteeners, it is the state’s twelfth highest peak. The mountain rises between contrasting landscapes, with the Middle Palisade Glacier above the South Fork of Big Pine Creek on its eastern flank and Palisade Lakes and Palisade Creek to the west near the John Muir Trail approaching Mather Pass. Its glacier, alpine lakes, and crestline setting make it prominent in one of the Sierra’s most dramatic high-country areas. Known as a climbing peak rather than a walk-up summit, it demands exposed scrambling, easy technical rock climbing, and sometimes glacier travel.
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Big Pine, California · United States