Charybdis
Charybdis rises to 3,988 m in California. Starlight Peak stands 4,324 m to the east, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is The Three Sirens, a peak 1.0 miles away.
The story
Charybdis is a 13,102-foot (3,993 m) mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California. Located deep in the backcountry of Kings Canyon National Park, Charybdis sits at the heart of one of the mountain range's least accessible regions. The shortest approach is 16 miles from the Sabrina Lake trailhead, and requires significant cross-country travel over rugged, exposed class 3 terrain. The shortest approach not requiring extensive cross-country travel is 23 miles long, beginning at the South Lake trailhead. Charybdis and its sister peak Scylla flank the Enchanted Gorge at its upper end, rising from the east and west sides of the gorge, respectively. Theodore Solomons gave Charybdis its name in 1895 on an expedition through the area. Its name, together with Scylla's, is a reference to the ancient Greek legend of Scylla and Charybdis. In this legend, Scylla and Charybdis are two sea monsters located very close to each other in the narrow Strait of Messina. It was considered impossible to avoid one of the monsters without getting too close to the other.
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Wikidata Q30144894, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3988 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- The Three Sirens: 1.0 mi
- Scylla: 1.3 mi
- Mount Solomons: 1.4 mi
- Black Giant: 1.5 mi
- Mount Hansen: 1.6 mi
- Triple Falls: 9.4 mi
- Upper Evolution Creek Falls: 10.1 mi
- Lower Evolution Creek Falls: 10.2 mi
- Blue Canyon Falls: 11.6 mi
- Second Falls: 12.2 mi
- Blue Canyon Cabin: 8.7 mi
- Shorty's Granite Pass Cabin: 13.9 mi
- Shorty's Woods Creek Crossing Cabin: 19.6 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 20.3 mi
- Bishop Creek Battleground: 20.4 mi
- Cold Springs: 9.6 mi
- Grouse Spring: 12.6 mi
- Big Pine Spring: 17.4 mi
- Scotty Spring: 21.6 mi
- Fish Springs: 22.6 mi
- Courtright Intrusive Contact Zone Geological Area: 16.5 mi
- Starlite Playground and Park: 17.9 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 21.5 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 21.7 mi
- Teakettle Experiment Area: 22.0 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 8.1 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 9.0 mi
- Short Hair Creek Picnic Area: 17.3 mi
- Wee-mee-kute Picnic Site: 17.4 mi
- Helms Picnic Area: 17.6 mi
- Great Cliffs: 6.3 mi
- Windy Cliff: 8.0 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 10.6 mi
- Muro Blanco: 14.7 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 20.9 mi
- Rock Monster: 3.3 mi
- John Muir Rock: 12.5 mi
- Paiute-Shoshone Indian Cultural Center: 23.5 mi
- American Mule Museum: 24.5 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 24.3 mi
- Jumping Rock: 24.5 mi
- Bishop Community Garden: 24.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.5 miles of Charybdis. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starlight Peak | E 86° | 4,323.7 m | 8.4 mi |
| Thunderbolt Peak | E 85° | 4,268 m | 8.3 mi |
| Mount Agassiz | ENE 77° | 4,235 m | 7.8 mi |
| Mount Darwin | N 358° | 4,216 m | 5.6 mi |
| Mount Winchell | E 81° | 4,200 m | 7.9 mi |
| Mount Mendel | N 353° | 4,177 m | 6.1 mi |
| Mount Goddard | WNW 292° | 4,126 m | 3.1 mi |
| Mount Fiske | N 0° | 4,116 m | 3.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:40 | 20:19 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:01 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 43 | 49 | 55 | 64 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bishop AP, 26 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 258225 — Charybdis, Fresno County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358797250
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