Mount Sill
| Mount Sill | |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 37°05′46″N 118°30′13″W / 37.0960543°N 118.5035056°W[6] |
| Geography | |
  Mount Sill California | |
| Location | Joseph N. LeConte, James Moffitt, Robert Pike[7] |
| Easiest route | Glacier climb & rock scramble |
Mount Sill is one of the
Palisade Glacier. Mount Sill lies on the main Sierra Crest, but is at a point where the crest turns sharply, giving it particularly striking summit views. On one side is Kings Canyon National Park and Fresno County; on the other is the John Muir Wilderness, Inyo National Forest and Inyo County
.
Routes on Mount Sill are found on all sides of the peak and range in difficulty from
class 2-3) to a moderately technical rock climbs (class 5.7).[8]
The mountain is called Nen-i-mish ("the Guardian of the Valley") by the Indigenous Northern
Paiute people.[6][8] Its English name was coined, in 1904, by Joseph LeConte, a noted mountaineer, in honor of American poet Edward Rowland Sill.[9]
See also
- List of California fourteeners
- The Palisades of the Sierra Nevada
- Mount Gayley
References
- ^ a b "Mount Sill, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
- ^ "Key Col for Mount Sill". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ^ "California 14,000-foot Peaks". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ^ "Sierra Peaks Section List" (PDF). Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
- ^ "Western States Climbers Qualifying Peak List". Climber.org. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
- ^ a b "Mount Sill". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
- ^
ISBN 978-0871561473.
- ^ ISBN 978-0898869712.
- ^ Farquhar, Francis P. (1926). Place Names of the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
External links
- "Mount Sill". SummitPost.org.
Media related to Mount Sill at Wikimedia Commons
