Mt Sill from the South Fork of the Big Pine Creek

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Click here for the approach from Big Pine Creek's South Fork to Glacier Notch

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 western side

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 to 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 (unamed 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

Polemonium and North Palisade

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
Panorama southeast

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

Movie of the summit view

View from Mt Sill (video)


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(Copyright © 2012 Piero Scaruffi)
If you would like the original, high-resolution pictures, contact me