Taboose Pass, , also known as Wide Gap, is a

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in the southern

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 ...

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on the border of the

Inyo National Forest Inyo National Forest is a United States National Forest covering parts of the eastern Sierra Nevada of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada. The forest hosts several superlatives, including Mount Whitney, the highest poi ...

(

John Muir Wilderness The John Muir Wilderness is a wilderness area that extends along the crest of the Sierra Nevada of California for , in the Inyo and Sierra National Forests. Established in 1964 by the Wilderness Act and named for naturalist John Muir, it encompa ...

) to the east and

Kings Canyon National Park Kings Canyon National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Fresno and Tulare Counties, California. Originally established in 1890 as General Grant National Park, the park was greatly expanded and renamed to Kings ...

to the west. The pass is reachable from the east via a long, strenuous hike from the desert floor of the

Owens Valley Owens Valley (Numic Numic is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. It includes seven languages spoken by Native American peoples traditionally living in the Great Basin, Colorado River basin, Snake River basin, and southern Great Pl ...

. On the west, it connects to the

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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, ...

in the National Park. Taboose Pass is one of the more difficult

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passes in the Sierra Nevada range, partly due to the low starting elevation of the Owens Valley Trailhead in a desert floor, at 5,500 feet. From the trailhead it is an 8-mile hike, gaining 6,000 feet over that distance to reach the pass at 11,400 feet. Some notable peaks near Taboose Pass include: Split Mountain (the southernmost

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in the Palisades group), Cardinal Mountain,

Crater Mountain Crater Mountain is an mountain summit located in the North Cascades of Washington state. It is the 29th highest mountain in the Pasayten Wilderness. The Jerry Glacier resides in the cirque on the upper north slopes of the mountain. The crate ...

Goodale Mountain Goodale Mountain is a mountain summit located one mile east of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Inyo County, California, Inyo County of northern California. It is situated less than two miles southeast of Taboose Pass in the Joh ...

Mount Ickes Mount Ickes is a mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Fresno County of northern California, United States. It is situated in eastern Kings Canyon National Park, northwest of the community of Independ ...

Marion Peak Marion Peak is a remote mountain summit located in Kings Canyon National Park, in Fresno County, California, Fresno County of northern California, United States. It is situated on Cirque Crest which is west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada moun ...

, Mount Pinchot,

Mount Ruskin Mount Ruskin is a mountain summit located in Kings Canyon National Park, in Fresno County, California, Fresno County of northern California, United States. It is situated west of the Sierra Crest, crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, immed ...

Striped Mountain Striped Mountain is a 13,179-foot-elevation (4,017 meter) mountain summit located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in northern California. It is situated on the common border of Fresno County with Inyo County, as well as the share ...

, Striped South,

Vennacher Needle Vennacher Needle is a mountain summit located in Kings Canyon National Park, in Fresno County of northern California, United States. It is situated west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, and north of Mount Ruskin. Topographic r ...

, White Mountain (at 12,828', not to be confused with the California fourteener with the same name), and

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*{{commons-inline Mountain passes of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Kings Canyon National Park