Pictures of Middle Palisade, Eastern Sierra

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Highlights

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From start to end

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Cactus flower	The Middle Palisade from the South Fork trailhead	The Middle Palisade from the South Fork trailhead

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Early morning panorama from Middle Palisade to Mt Sill

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Early morning panorama from Middle Palisade to Mt Gayley

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Wildflowers

Willow lake

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At Brainerd Lake

Brainerd Lake from above

Willow Lake

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Middle Palisade and its glacier from Finger Lake

Finger Lake

Finger Lake

Finger Lake

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Finger Lake

Middle Palisade from Finger Lake

Middle Palisade from FInger Lake

Finger Lake

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Finger Lake

The waterfall above Finger Lake

Finger Lake

Finger Lake

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The island inside Finger Lake

Finger Lake

Middle Palisade from Finger Lake

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Finger Lake

Finger Lake

Finger Lake

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Wildflowers

Wildflowers

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Wildflowers

Wildflowers

Wildflowers

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Finger Lake from the deadly chute to the southeast

The southeast chute above Finger Lake

The southeast chute above FInger Lake (can you see the hiking poles of the hiker coasting the snow inside the bergschrund?)

Middle Palisade from the last lake

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Middle Palisade and Clyde Peak

Approaching Middle Palisade: the rib to the left and the U-shape red rocks in the middle. The main chute is at the top of the red rocks, the Secor route to the left

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Middle Palisade, rib, red-rock chute, Secor chute, etc

Mt Sill and Gayley

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The last lake from the east moraine

The last lake

The way we came

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The place where you cross the bergschrund

The place where you cross the bergschrund and enter the Secor chute

Up the Secor route

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Up the Secor route

The Gendarme separating the main chute (left) and the Secor route (right)

The main chute coming from the red rocks

Inside the main chute

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Up the main chute

Up the main chute (the summit it to the left)

Up the main chute

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Almost at the top

Almost at the top

Almost at the top

At the top

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The Palisades

The lakes we passed on the way up

Summit register

Best lake visible from the top

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Panorama west (Palisades)

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Panorama east

Video from the top - take1 | Video from the top - take1

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