Mount Sill, California

Mount Sill in the California Palisades (2001-07-17). Photo by James Barlow. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 353 ft/108 m   Optimistic Prominence: 393 ft/120 m   Line Parent: North Palisade   Key Col: 13,800 ft/4206 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 0.62 mi/1 km    Isolation Limit Point: 37.0942, -118.5142 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     North Palisade  (WSW)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Sierra Nevada Range4: Central Sierra Nevada Range5: Palisades
Ridges/Divides	Pacific Crest Sierra Nevada Crest
Drainage Basins	Kings Tulare Lake Bed South San Joaquin Basin Internal Drainage-N.A. Worldwide Internal Drainage Owens Valley Great Basin Internal Drainage-N.A. Worldwide Internal Drainage
Ownership	Land: Kings Canyon National Park/Inyo National Forest Wilderness/Special Area: Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness Area/John Muir Wilderness Area
Topo Map	North Palisade O37118a5 1:24,000
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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Other Photos

East face of Mount Sill (1978-08-20). Photo by John Vitz. Click here for larger-size photo.

Traversing across the ledges on the west face of Sill. The exposure was minor, and there were plentiful handholds. Once across the ledges, the climbing steepened but was quite easy with good hand and foot placements. The rock was solid all the way up through the 4th class section to the ridge. The forth class section itself was no more than 15' high and seemed to just have a single crux move where we high-stepped out right onto a thin horizontal crack before moving up (2016-08-06). Photo by Jaeson Greer. Click here for larger-size photo.

Lost and trying to find the crux hand crack on Mt Sill Swiss Arete (2019-07-20). Photo by Emily Bei Cheng. Click here for larger-size photo.

On the traverse from Thunderbolt to North Palisade. Mt Sill is on the left and Starlight is on the right of the climber (2021-08-08). Photo by Emily Bei Cheng. Click here for larger-size photo.

Right below the crux (2022-08-13). Photo by Ben FR. Click here for larger-size photo.

On the summit with me (left) and my buddy Ed Hill (2022-08-17). Photo by Andy McClure. Click here for larger-size photo.

My buddy Tom Buck on the summit. (2022-08-17). Photo by Andy McClure. Click here for larger-size photo.

Tom Buck on the summit of Sill (2022-08-17). Photo by Andy McClure. Click here for larger-size photo.

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