North Guard
North Guard rises to 4,058 m in California. Mount Stanford stands 4,260 m to the east, 5.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Brewer, a peak 0.6 miles away.
The story
North Guard is a remote 13,327-foot-elevation (4,062-meter) mountain summit located near the northern end of the Great Western Divide of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Tulare County of northern California. It is situated in Kings Canyon National Park, 0.9 miles (1.4 km) southeast of Mount Farquhar, and 0.6 miles (0.97 km) north-northwest of Mount Brewer, which is the nearest higher neighbor. Topographic relief is significant as the east aspect rises 3,858 feet (1,176 meters) above East Lake in three miles. North Guard ranks as the 87th highest summit in California, and the second highest point of the northern Great Western Divide. It's not as high as Mount Brewer, but offers better climbing and is considered one of the classic climbing routes in the Sierra Nevada.
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Wikidata Q49057314, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4058 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Brewer: 0.6 mi
- Mount Farquhar: 0.9 mi
- Cross Mountain: 1.5 mi
- South Guard: 1.6 mi
- Mount Sheldon: 1.7 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 17.2 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 17.5 mi
- Congress Group: 17.6 mi
- McKinley Tree: 17.6 mi
- Tharp's Log: 17.7 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 3.7 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 4.9 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 5.4 mi
- Donald Downs Plaque: 6.8 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 7.5 mi
- Tub Springs: 11.9 mi
- Boron Springs: 13.1 mi
- McGann Springs: 14.4 mi
- SB23 intermittent spring: 15.7 mi
- Grover Anton Spring: 16.1 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 7.2 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 7.3 mi
- Mist Falls: 7.5 mi
- Roaring River Falls: 8.6 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 10.0 mi
- Valhalla: 11.4 mi
- Muro Blanco: 13.4 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 16.0 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 18.2 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 19.3 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 18.3 mi
- Japanese Garden: 18.4 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 18.4 mi
- Rose Garden: 18.4 mi
- Arai Pond: 18.5 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 20.1 mi
- Lathe Arch: 21.4 mi
- Mobius Arch: 21.4 mi
- Heart Arch: 21.5 mi
- Palette Arch: 22.6 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 15.3 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 16.5 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 17.8 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 18.2 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 19.2 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 16.9 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 17.0 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 18.9 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 18.9 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 24.8 mi
- Dehy Park: 17.0 mi
- Independence Park: 17.2 mi
- Merritt Park: 18.4 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 22.8 mi
- Spainhower Park: 24.7 mi
- Kearsarge: 11.2 mi
- San Carlos: 21.0 mi
- Bend City: 21.1 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 16.6 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 21.1 mi
- Paiute Mural: 18.4 mi
- Miss Alabama: 23.2 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 23.3 mi
- Jumping Rock: 23.7 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 17.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.4 miles of North Guard. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Stanford | E 99° | 4,260.2 m | 5.3 mi |
| Gregory's Monument | E 101° | 4,254.4 m | 5.3 mi |
| Mount Keith | E 98° | 4,249 m | 8.2 mi |
| Junction Peak | ESE 104° | 4,224 m | 7.1 mi |
| Caltech Peak | ESE 109° | 4,216.5 m | 5.8 mi |
| Table Mountain | SSE 167° | 4,151 m | 4.0 mi |
| Mount Ericsson | ESE 108° | 4,150.7 m | 4.4 mi |
| Milestone Mountain | S 177° | 4,149 m | 5.7 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 | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:02 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 60 | 55 | 45 | 35 | 27 |
| Precip in | 8.7 | 7.9 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 6.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lodgepole, 16 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358771695
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