Mt Sill from the South Fork of the Big Pine Creek
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(Click on the pictures to enlarge them | If you have a high-speed connection, click here for a selection of larger pictures)| Click here for the approach from Big Pine Creek's South Fork to Glacier Notch | Click here for the approach via Scimitar Pass |
 Palisades Crest and Scimitar Pass |
 Scimitar Pass |
 Mt Sill and Apex Peak |
 Looking down at the eastern glacier |
 Mt Gayley |
 The Eastern Coloir of Mt Sill (in a very dry summer) |
 Looking down at the eastern glacier |
 The chute between Mt Sill and Apex Peak (L Coloir) |
 It gets steeper |
 The rock to the left is safer |
 Then it gets drier |
 Mt Sill towering on the left |
 North Palisade from the top of the chute |
 Mt Sill's western slope |
 The chute behind me |
 The L-chute (northern chute) in 2021, a very dry year |
 The L-chute in 2021 |
 Up the L-chute |
 Gayley and Glacier Notch from the chute |
 Apex Peak |
 Going down the L-chute |
 Going down the L-chute |
 Going down the L-chute |
 Up the L-chute |
 North Pal and Thunderbolt from the Apex Peak saddle |
 North Palisade |
 Temple Craig and Owens Valley |
 Owens Valley |
 Temple Craig to Owens Valley (the way i came up) |
 The little notch to the southwestern side of Sill |
 View of the Palisades (North Palisade, Thunderbolt, Winchell |
 North Pal and Thunderbolt |
 The ledge beyond the notch |
 The wall to the crest |
 The wall to the crest |
 The wall to the crest |
 Apex Peak |
 Winchell and Agassiz |
 From the North Palisade to Agassiz |
 Polemonium and North Palisade |
 Panorama of the Palisades from Winchell to the north |
 Polemonium and North Pal |
 Looking back at the notch |
 Looking down at the path from the class-4 section |
 Looking up at the class-4 section |
 If you slip... (the path is all the way to the right) |
 Almost at the top of the class-4 section, having passed the worst |
 The marker for the class-4 section |
 Top of the class-4 section |
 Barret Peak's northwestern face |
 The route to Barrett Peak's summit |
 Polemonium |
 Searching for a way to the summit |
 The marker down below |
 The summit is somewhere up there |
 Views of the Sill glacier and Barrett Peak |
 Barrett Peak to Mt Agassiz |
 Barrett Peak, the Polemonium glacier and Potluck Pass |
 Views of the Sill glacier (Polemonium peak) |
 Scimitar Pass and the ridge that descends rapidly towards the lake |
 The summit |
 Owens Valley |
 Seven Lakes region, Gayley, Temple Crag |
 Palisade Crest, Scimitar Pass, Sierra south of the Palisades |
 Barrett Peak and Polemonium |
 Polemonium, North Palisade, Thunderbolt, Winchell, Agassiz |
 Southern Sierra |
 Split Mt and Mt Williamson? |
 Gayley and Temple Crag |
 Seven lake region |
 View from the top: Polemonium, North Palisade, Starlight, Thunderbolt (the Palisades) |
 North Palisade |
 Thunderbolt |
 Winchell and Agassiz |
 The Palisades glacier |
 Mt Gayley |
 The point where you reach the crest |
 The summit register |
 The Palisades glacier |
 The summit |
 The Palisades |
 Agassiz and view west |
 Gayley and Temple Crag |
 The South Fork route |
 Summit |
 Palisades |
 Central chute |
 Central chute |
 Palisades glacier |
 L-coloir and Apex Peak |
 L-coloir and Apex Peak |
 View southeast (Williams and Whitney in the distance) |
 Palisades glacier and seven-lakes region |
 Palisades glacier |
 Palisades glacier |
 View from the top (west?) |
 The central chute |
 Mt Sill's summit |
 The Palisades Glacier in 2021 (a very dry year) |
 Barrett and Polemonium |
 Palisades Crest to North Palisade |
 View from Agassiz to Owens Valley |
 The south fork route and Owens Valley |
 The south fork route and Owens Valley |
 The register |
Glacier view (video)
View from Mt Sill (2021 video)
View from Mt Sill (video)
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