Mount Shakspere is a 12,174-foot-elevation (3,711 meter)
summit
A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topography, topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous.
The term (mountain top) is generally used ...
located in
Fresno County,
California, United States.
Description
The mountain is set four miles west of the crest of the
Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...
mountain range, in the
Palisades area of
Kings Canyon National Park. It is situated southwest of
Middle Palisade
Middle Palisade is a 14,018-foot (4,273 meters) peak in the central Sierra Nevada mountain range in the U.S. state of California. It is a fourteener, and lies on the Sierra Crest as part of the Palisades group, a group of prominent Sierra Nevada ...
, southeast of
Giraud Peak
Giraud Peak is a mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Fresno County, California, Fresno County of northern California, United States. It is situated in the Palisades (California Sierra), Palisades area ...
, and one mile north-northwest of
line parent A peak's line parent is the closest higher peak on the highest ridge leading away from the peak's "key col". A col is the lowest point on the ridge between two summits and is roughly synonymous with pass, gap, saddle and notch. The highest col of ...
Observation Peak. Mt. Shakspere ranks as the 384th-highest summit in California,
and
topographic relief is significant as the summit rises over above Palisade Creek in approximately . The
first ascent of the summit was made July 20, 1930, by
Francis P. Farquhar, Mary Lou Michaels, Doris Drust, Lorna Kilgariff, and Robert L. Lipman. This mountain's name has been officially adopted by the
United States Board on Geographic Names
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.
Climate
Mount Shakspere is located in an
alpine climate zone.
Most
weather fronts originate in the
Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Sierra Nevada mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (
orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or
snowfall
Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout ...
onto the range. Precipitation
runoff
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from this mountain drains into tributaries of the
Middle Fork Kings River.
Gallery
File:Mount Shakspere, California.jpg, Mt. Shakspere (centered), from Middle Palisade
Middle Palisade is a 14,018-foot (4,273 meters) peak in the central Sierra Nevada mountain range in the U.S. state of California. It is a fourteener, and lies on the Sierra Crest as part of the Palisades group, a group of prominent Sierra Nevada ...
File:Mount Shakspere, CA.jpg, Mt. Shakspere (upper left), high above Palisade Creek valley
See also
*
Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness
References
External links
* Weather forecast
Mount Shakspere
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Mountains of Fresno County, California
Mountains of Kings Canyon National Park
North American 3000 m summits
Mountains of Northern California
Sierra Nevada (United States)