Palisade Crest

Infobox Mountain
Name = Palisade Crest
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pushpin_map_caption = Location of Palisade Crest in California
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coordinates_ref = Cite gnis|1659335|Palisade Crest|19-JAN-1981|2008-09-15]
latd=37 | latm=4 | lats=40 | latNS=N
longd=118 | longm=29 | longs=12 | longEW=W

Elevation = Convert|13559|ft|m|0|lk=on The elevation of this summit has been converted from its National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) elevation of Convert|13553|ft|m|0 to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) elevation of Convert|13559|ft|m|0. [http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/faq.shtml#WhatVD29VD88 National Geodetic Survey] ] cite web
url = http://www.peaklist.org/CAmtnatlas/tables/whitney/palisade.html
title = NORTH PALISADE - California Mountain Atlas
work = peaklist.org
accessdate = 2008-09-15 ]

Location = Fresno-Inyo County border, California, USA
Range = Sierra Nevada
Prominence = Convert|561|ft|m|0|lk=on
Parent peak = Middle Palisade
Coordinates = Coord|37|4|40|N|118|29|12|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_source:GNIS|display=inline,title|name=Birch Mountain
Topographic
USGS Split Mountain
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First ascent = 1969 Don Jensen Joan Jensen Rex Post cite book
last=Secor
first=R.J.
title= The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes and Trails
origyear=1999
edition=2nd
publisher=The Mountaineers Books
location=Seattle
isbn=0-89886-625-1 ]

Easiest route = Northwest ridge (easy rock climb)

Listing = SPS peak cite web
url=http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/spslist.htm
title = Peaks List
work = Sierra Club Sierra Peaks Section
accessdate=2008-09-15 ]

Palisade Crest is a jagged section of the ridge of the Sierra Nevada's Palisades, southeast of Mount Sill, and northwest of Middle Palisade. Its twelve pinnacles are names after characters from J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction.

ee also

*Mountain peaks of California

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