Middle Palisade is a 14,018-foot (4,273 meters) peak in the central

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mountain range in the

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. It is a fourteener, and lies on the

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as part of the Palisades group, a group of prominent Sierra Nevada mountain summits that includes multiple other

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s, approximately 12 miles southwest of the town of Big Pine. Middle Palisade is the twelfth highest peak in California. Middle Palisade's eastern flank hosts the

Middle Palisade Glacier Middle Palisade Glacier consists of two glaciers in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the U.S. state of California. Less than southeast of Norman Clyde Glacier and situated at an altitude of , Middle Palisade Glacier is in the John Muir Wilderness o ...

, lying above the South Fork of

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. To the west of Middle Palisade are the Palisade Lakes, Palisade Creek, and the

John Muir Trail The John Muir Trail (JMT) (Northern Paiute language, Paiute: Nüümü Poyo, ''N-ue-mue Poh-yo'') is a long-distance trail in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, passing through Yosemite National Park, Yosemite, ...

as it ascends south towards

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. Several routes involving

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and/or easy technical

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() exist on the various flanks of Middle Palisade. Some routes involve travel on the

. The easiest route involves scrambling () up a chute on the east face of the peak.

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* Fourteeners of California Mountains of Kings Canyon National Park Mountains of the John Muir Wilderness Mountains of Fresno County, California Mountains of Inyo County, California Mountains of Northern California {{InyoCountyCA-geo-stub

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