Striped Mountain
Striped Mountain rises to 4,022 m in California. North Palisade stands 4,343 m to the northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Goodale Mountain, a peak 1.1 miles away.
The story
Striped Mountain is a 13,179-foot-elevation (4,017-meter) mountain summit located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in northern California. It is situated on the common border of Fresno County with Inyo County, as well as the shared boundary of John Muir Wilderness and Kings Canyon National Park. It is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) northwest of the community of Independence, approximately two miles south of Taboose Pass, and 1.9 miles (3.1 km) north of Mount Wynne. Striped Mountain ranks as the 115th highest summit in California. The first ascent of the summit was made in July 1905 by George R. Davis, a USGS topographer. Climbing routes to this mountain include Taboose Pass and the West Ridge. The John Muir Trail passes west of this peak, providing an additional approach to the mountain. Bolton Coit Brown gave this mountain its descriptive name in 1895 when he later wrote: "That nearest the pass is strikingly barred across its steep craggy summit with light streaks. As this is an unusually marked case of this peculiarity and as it seems well occasionally to have a mountain whose name bears some relation to its visible character, I called it Striped Mountain." The numerous stripes are lightly colored granitic dikes of Lamarck granodiorite intruded within Striped pluton, which is composed of fine-grained mafic granodiorite.
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Wikidata Q49078877, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4021.7 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Goodale Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Mount Pinchot: 1.3 mi
- Mount Wynne: 1.9 mi
- Cardinal Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Mount Perkins: 2.9 mi
- Scotty Spring: 4.8 mi
- Harry Birch Springs: 7.5 mi
- Grover Anton Spring: 8.6 mi
- Little Blackrock Spring: 9.4 mi
- Hines Spring: 9.7 mi
- Shorty's Woods Creek Crossing Cabin: 6.6 mi
- Aberdeen Station: 10.9 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 11.0 mi
- Prospect: 12.2 mi
- Shorty's Granite Pass Cabin: 12.3 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 21.2 mi
- Japanese Garden: 21.2 mi
- Rose Garden: 21.2 mi
- Arai Pond: 21.2 mi
- Bk 22 Mess Hall Garden: 21.5 mi
- Triple Falls: 8.5 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 10.6 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 10.6 mi
- First Falls: 11.3 mi
- Second Falls: 12.0 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 15.3 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 15.7 mi
- Dehy Park: 15.7 mi
- Independence Park: 16.3 mi
- Merritt Park: 21.2 mi
- Muro Blanco: 7.6 mi
- Windy Cliff: 9.3 mi
- Great Cliffs: 11.3 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 15.2 mi
- Kearsarge: 11.6 mi
- Bend City: 18.2 mi
- San Carlos: 19.0 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 15.8 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 15.9 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 21.7 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 16.7 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 17.3 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 21.9 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 9.2 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 13.1 mi
- Rock Monster: 15.6 mi
- Saline Valley Road OHV Trailhead: 22.7 mi
- Paiute Mural: 21.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.4 miles of Striped Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Palisade | NW 326° | 4,343 m | 10.8 mi |
| Starlight Peak | NW 326° | 4,323.7 m | 10.9 mi |
| Mount Sill | NNW 329° | 4,316 m | 10.5 mi |
| Polemonium Peak | NW 326° | 4,298.2 m | 10.7 mi |
| Middle Palisade | NNW 334° | 4,278.2 m | 8.1 mi |
| Split Mountain | NNW 345° | 4,269 m | 4.0 mi |
| Thunderbolt Peak | NW 326° | 4,268 m | 11.1 mi |
| Disappointment Peak | NNW 334° | 4,258.6 m | 7.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:39 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:01 | 16:41 |
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, 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/358807457
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