Pictures of North Palisade
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From start to end
(Click on the pictures to enlarge them | If you have a high-speed connection, click here for larger pictures)Part 1: from the South Lake trailhead to Bishop Pass
Part 2: from Bishop Pass to the Palisades
Part 3: Climbing North Palisade is below, but also check From Thunderbolt Pass to the U-Notch
Orientation
 The route from South Lake to North Palisade |
 The route from Agassiz to Thunderbolt Pass |
 Winchell along the way |
 Winchell and Thunderbolt |
 Dusy Basin from Thunderbold Pass |
 North Palisade from Thunderbolt Pass |
 Thunderbolt Peak and North Palisade from Thunderbolt Pass |
 North Palisade from the Barrett Lakes |
 Entrance to the chute if you are coming from Thunderbolt Pass |
 Entrance to the chute |
 Entrance to the chute |
 The first and the second chute of the North Palisade |
 These granite slabs mark the U-notch chute |
 The shortcut to enter the chute |
 The chutes of the North Palisade |
| Barrett lakes |
 Knapsack Pass |
 Knapsack Pass |
 Entrance to the chute |
Part 3: North Palisade
 The second chute of the North Palisade with the "church" towering in it |
 Into the second chute of the North Palisade, facing the "church" |
 Into the second chute of the North Palisade, facing the "church" |
 Looking down |
 Heading for the "church" |
 Before the granite slabs |
 At the granite slabs |
 The granite slopes |
 The granite slopes |
 Barrett Lakes |
 Bear right from the granite slabs |
 The summit |
 The granite slabs |
 Bear right from the granite slabs |
 Up the ridge |
 Up the ridge |
 Ascending above the granite slopes |
 Up the ridge |
 Up the ridge |
 Up the ridge |
 End of the ridge (turn left up) |
 End of the ridge (turn left up) |
 The ridge from above |
 The place where you climb back into the chute |
 The summit from above the granite slabs |
 Rocky wall coming down from North Pal |
The route |
 Panorama from the U-notch chute |
 Looking down at the chute from the ridge |
 Cairns to mark the place where you can descend into the chute again |
 Up the ridge |
| The steps to the ledges (click for details) |
 Towards the steps/ledges |
 Towards the steps/ledges |
 Look to the left for the beginning of the steps (click on image to see details) |
| The lakes down below |
 The beginning of the steps |
 Beginning of the steps/ledges |
 Beginning of the steps |
 Hard to miss cairn at the beginning of the traverse |
 The easy part of the traverse |
 Keep following the cairns |
 Keep following the cairns |
 The beginning of the steps (turn left where the chute narrows) |
 The steps |
 The ledges |
 The ledges |
 The steps from above |
 Dramatic exposure |
 On the ledges |
 On the ledges |
 On the ledges |
 The ledges |
 End of the ledges |
 Looking back at the last stretch of the ledges |
 End of the ledges and beginning of the main chute |
 Up the main chute |
 The chockstone |
 The first chockst |
| Dusy Basin |
 Subpeaks |
 The bowl |
 The bowl and the summit |
 The main chute and the end of the ledges |
 The left side of the bowl |
 The right side of the bowl |
 View down below |
 The bowl |
 The bowl |
 The bowl |
 Mid Palisade |
 Mt Gayley (left) and Mt Sill (right) |
 The bowl and the summit |
 Up towards the summit |
 Up towards the summit |
 Up towards the summit |
 Up towards the summit |
 Up towards the summit |
 Up towards the summit |
 Up towards the summit |
 Up towards the summit |
 Up towards the summit |
 Up towards the summit |
 Up towards the summit |
 Up towards the summit |
 The white stones (virtually invisible from below) |
 The real summit: alas, vertical wall on most sides - the overhanging rock to the right is a marker for the "easiest" route (right on top of the brief tunnel) |
 The final ledges (at the end of these ledges, turn left, go down, look for the crack to your right, go through the crack) |
 The summit |
 One USGS marker (there are two) |
 Location of the register |
 USGS marker |
 View of the seven-lake basin |
 Subpeaks |
 Mt Sill |
 Panorama of Barrett Lakes and Dusy Basin separated by Thunderbolt Pass |
 Subpeaks between North Palisade and Mt Sill |
 From the top |
 From the top |
 Seven lakes basin |
 Panorama north |
 Mt Sill |
 View east |
 View east (Scimitar Pass) |
 View east (Owens Valley) |
 Glacier Notch with almost no ice |
 The white route: the way to the top, but visible only if you are all the way to the right |
 The white route |
 The summit block from the right side of the bowl |
 North Pal from Polemonium |
 View north from the seven lakes to Mt Sill |
 View east of Palisade Crest |
 View south |
 Evolution Region |
 The main chute from the top |
 Lake below Scimitar Pass |
 Dusy Basin |
 Barrett Lakes |
 Sub-peak Starlight Peak |
 Sub-peaks |
 Sub-peaks |
 Sub-peaks |
 View from the top |
 View from the top |
 View from the top |
 View from the top |
 View from the top |
 Fall colors |
 Fall colors |
 Fall colors |
 Fall colors |
 Fall colors |
 Fall colors |
 Fall colors |
Video from the top | Video of the ledges
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