Glacier Spike
Glacier Spike rises to 3,803 m in California. Mount Tyndall stands 4,275 m to the south-southeast, 9.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Rixford, a peak 0.5 miles away.
The story
Summit in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Wikidata Q119495690, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,802.8 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Rixford: 0.5 mi
- Painted Lady: 0.6 mi
- Falcor Peak: 0.9 mi
- Mount Gould: 1.7 mi
- Dragon Peak: 1.7 mi
- Tub Springs: 6.0 mi
- Boron Springs: 7.6 mi
- McGann Springs: 7.7 mi
- Grover Anton Spring: 9.4 mi
- Harry Birch Springs: 10.7 mi
- Chicken Ranch: 18.4 mi
- Boot Arch: 18.6 mi
- Cyclops Skull Arch: 18.6 mi
- Man of Steel (movie site): 18.9 mi
- Iron Man (movie site): 19.2 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 3.5 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 3.5 mi
- Mist Falls: 8.0 mi
- Roaring River Falls: 11.9 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 14.8 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 2.4 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 5.7 mi
- Shorty's Woods Creek Crossing Cabin: 6.1 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 6.4 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 6.8 mi
- Muro Blanco: 10.5 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 16.4 mi
- Windy Cliff: 17.3 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 17.9 mi
- Valhalla: 18.0 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 14.3 mi
- Japanese Garden: 14.4 mi
- Arai Pond: 14.4 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 14.5 mi
- Kado's Garden: 14.6 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 19.0 mi
- Mobius Arch: 19.7 mi
- Lathe Arch: 19.7 mi
- Heart Arch: 19.8 mi
- Hitching Post Arch: 21.0 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 11.3 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 11.4 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 15.0 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 22.8 mi
- Museum of Western Film History: 23.1 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 16.7 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 18.6 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 24.1 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 24.8 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 24.9 mi
- Dehy Park: 11.4 mi
- Independence Park: 11.7 mi
- Merritt Park: 14.4 mi
- Spainhower Park: 22.6 mi
- Kearsarge: 4.8 mi
- Bend City: 15.5 mi
- San Carlos: 15.6 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 10.4 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 14.4 mi
- Paiute Mural: 14.4 mi
- Miss Alabama: 21.6 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 21.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.9 miles of Glacier Spike. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tyndall | SSE 157° | 4,275 m | 9.9 mi |
| Mount Stanford | S 174° | 4,260 m | 5.8 mi |
| Gregory's Monument | S 174° | 4,254 m | 6.0 mi |
| Mount Keith | SSE 150° | 4,249 m | 7.0 mi |
| Junction Peak | SSE 161° | 4,224 m | 7.1 mi |
| Caltech Peak | S 172° | 4,217 m | 6.9 mi |
| Table Mountain | SSW 203° | 4,151 m | 9.5 mi |
| Mount Ericsson | S 184° | 4,151 m | 6.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:38 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:03 | 16:01 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 47 | 54 | 60 | 69 | 79 | 85 | 83 | 76 | 64 | 52 | 43 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Independence, 11 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/10977010865
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