South Guard
South Guard rises to 4,021 m in California. Mount Tyndall stands 4,275 m to the east-southeast, 8.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Sky Pilot Peak, a peak 0.6 miles away.
The story
South Guard is a remote 13,232-foot-elevation (4,033-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, 1.63 miles (2.62 km) south of North Guard, and one mile south of Mount Brewer, which is the nearest higher neighbor. Topographic relief is significant as the west aspect rises 4,600 feet (1,400 meters) above Cloud Canyon in 3.5 miles, and the east aspect rises 3,200 feet (980 meters) above Lake Reflection in two miles. South Guard ranks as the 103rd highest summit in California, and the third-highest point of the northern Great Western Divide.
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Wikidata Q49075822, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4,021 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sky Pilot Peak: 0.6 mi
- Mount Brewer: 1.0 mi
- Mount Sheldon: 1.1 mi
- North Guard: 1.6 mi
- Thunder Mountain: 1.8 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 16.7 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 16.9 mi
- Congress Group: 17.0 mi
- Tharp's Log: 17.0 mi
- McKinley Tree: 17.1 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 8.4 mi
- Upper Picket Creek Falls: 8.6 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 8.7 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 8.8 mi
- Tamarack Falls: 8.8 mi
- Tub Springs: 12.5 mi
- Boron Springs: 13.5 mi
- SB23 intermittent spring: 14.4 mi
- McGann Springs: 15.3 mi
- Grover Anton Spring: 17.0 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 5.3 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 6.1 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 6.5 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 9.2 mi
- Shorty's Crowley Canyon Cabin: 11.0 mi
- Valhalla: 10.2 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 14.8 mi
- Muro Blanco: 15.1 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 19.7 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 20.1 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 19.2 mi
- Lathe Arch: 20.6 mi
- Mobius Arch: 20.6 mi
- Heart Arch: 20.7 mi
- Palette Arch: 21.7 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 18.1 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 18.2 mi
- Japanese Garden: 18.2 mi
- Kado's Garden: 18.3 mi
- Arai Pond: 18.3 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 15.4 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 16.3 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 17.6 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 17.7 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 19.3 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 17.2 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 17.3 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 18.3 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 18.7 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 24.0 mi
- Dehy Park: 17.4 mi
- Independence Park: 17.4 mi
- Merritt Park: 18.2 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 23.0 mi
- Spainhower Park: 23.9 mi
- Kearsarge: 11.9 mi
- San Carlos: 21.2 mi
- Bend City: 21.4 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 17.2 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 22.1 mi
- Paiute Mural: 18.2 mi
- Miss Alabama: 22.4 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 24.0 mi
- Jumping Rock: 24.4 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 15.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.3 miles of South Guard. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tyndall | ESE 108° | 4,275 m | 8.5 mi |
| Mount Stanford | E 81° | 4,260 m | 4.9 mi |
| Gregory's Monument | E 83° | 4,254 m | 4.9 mi |
| Mount Keith | E 87° | 4,249 m | 7.8 mi |
| Junction Peak | E 91° | 4,224 m | 6.5 mi |
| Caltech Peak | E 93° | 4,217 m | 5.2 mi |
| Table Mountain | SSE 166° | 4,151 m | 2.3 mi |
| Mount Ericsson | E 86° | 4,151 m | 3.9 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 | 07:03 | 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, 15 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 235072 — South Guard, Tulare County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358776298
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