Norman Clyde Peak - Twilight Pillar drops straight...
Description
A fitting memorial to Norman Clyde - the Sierras most prolific first ascentionist. This peak dominates the Palisades trailhead at Sage Flat, rising at the end of the South Fork of Big Pine Creek canyon. No easy way to the top adds to it's appeal. The standout route on this peak is Twilight Pillar (III 5.9).
Getting There
From Big Pine on 395 drive up the road to Glacier Lodge; trailhead is signed on the right.
Take the South Fork of Big Pine Creek, at first flat for quite a while, cross the creek and begin to switchback up a steep scree slope to the crest. Now head towards Willow Lake, followed by a trail left and up to Brainard Lake. A climbers trail goes around the north shore of this lake, then scree and slabs to the northern end of Finger Lake. Camp here.
Downclimb (descent) is very circuitous and exposed. Generalities include traversing north for a ways a few hundred feet below the ridgeline, then working back south when feasible to join the start of the ridge.
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