Picture Puzzle
Picture Puzzle rises to 4,048 m in California. North Palisade stands 4,343 m to the south-southeast, 2.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Gendarme Peak, a peak 0.4 miles away.
The story
Picture Puzzle, also known as Picture Puzzle Peak, is a 13,297-foot-elevation (4,053-meter) mountain summit located one mile east of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Inyo County of northern California, United States. It is situated in the Palisades area of the John Muir Wilderness, on land managed by Inyo National Forest. It is approximately 14.5 miles (23.3 km) west of the community of Big Pine, one mile north of Bishop Pass, 0.8 miles (1.3 km) northwest of Aperture Peak, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) north-northwest of Mount Agassiz, and 1.1 miles (1.8 km) south-southwest of parent Cloudripper. Picture Puzzle ranks as the 90th-highest summit in California, and the third-highest peak of the Inconsolable Range.
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Wikidata Q49061081, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4048 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Gendarme Peak: 0.4 mi
- Aperture Peak: 0.8 mi
- Two Eagle Peak: 0.9 mi
- Cloudripper: 1.1 mi
- Mount Agassiz: 1.2 mi
- Grouse Spring: 5.0 mi
- Big Pine Spring: 9.7 mi
- Fish Springs: 15.6 mi
- Cold Springs: 16.4 mi
- Wilkerson Springs: 16.8 mi
- Second Falls: 4.6 mi
- First Falls: 5.2 mi
- Triple Falls: 10.0 mi
- Upper Evolution Creek Falls: 14.6 mi
- Lower Evolution Creek Falls: 14.8 mi
- Starlite Playground and Park: 13.6 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 13.9 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 14.1 mi
- Izaak Walton Park: 17.0 mi
- Bulpitt Park: 17.0 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 3.3 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 3.9 mi
- Piñyon Picnic Area Nature Trail: 23.5 mi
- Wee-mee-kute Picnic Site: 24.6 mi
- Short Hair Creek Picnic Area: 24.9 mi
- Great Cliffs: 8.5 mi
- Windy Cliff: 8.6 mi
- Muro Blanco: 15.1 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 15.4 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 20.0 mi
- Paiute-Shoshone Indian Cultural Center: 17.5 mi
- American Mule Museum: 18.3 mi
- Laws Railroad Museum: 21.5 mi
- Rock Monster: 4.5 mi
- John Muir Rock: 16.9 mi
- Bishop Community Garden: 18.3 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 20.7 mi
- Kearsarge: 24.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.7 miles of Picture Puzzle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Palisade | SSE 150° | 4,343 m | 2.7 mi |
| Starlight Peak | SSE 150° | 4,323.7 m | 2.6 mi |
| Mount Sill | SE 138° | 4,316 m | 3.0 mi |
| Polemonium Peak | SSE 148° | 4,298.2 m | 2.8 mi |
| Middle Palisade | SE 136° | 4,278.2 m | 5.5 mi |
| Thunderbolt Peak | SSE 151° | 4,268 m | 2.4 mi |
| Disappointment Peak | SE 137° | 4,258.6 m | 5.7 mi |
| Barrett Peak | SE 146° | 4,258 m | 3.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:39 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:01 | 16:41 |
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, 20 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1667282 — Picture Puzzle, Inyo County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/7931791071
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