June 3,2020
The Palisades
The Palisades are a semicircular group of mountain peaks characterized by a wall of granite on the eastern side stretching from Birch Mountain in the south to Cloudripper in the north. There are some mountains within this bowl formed by the Palisade walls, Kid Mountain(try a Google search to get info on that), Alice Mountain, and Buck Mountain. While these peaks are of a lower elevation than the Palisades they do sometimes block the view since they're a few miles closer. The easiest way to see the section of a photo that contains the Palisades is to look for Birch Mountain, it has a disk shaped snow patch on the south(left) side of the summit. I was originally going to shoot these peaks from Big Pine, but decided some distance to the east and elevation would be helpful, I found they short dirt road off the highway east of Big Pine a few hundred feet above the Owens Valley floor.
Read MoreThe Palisades are a semicircular group of mountain peaks characterized by a wall of granite on the eastern side stretching from Birch Mountain in the south to Cloudripper in the north. There are some mountains within this bowl formed by the Palisade walls, Kid Mountain(try a Google search to get info on that), Alice Mountain, and Buck Mountain. While these peaks are of a lower elevation than the Palisades they do sometimes block the view since they're a few miles closer. The easiest way to see the section of a photo that contains the Palisades is to look for Birch Mountain, it has a disk shaped snow patch on the south(left) side of the summit. I was originally going to shoot these peaks from Big Pine, but decided some distance to the east and elevation would be helpful, I found they short dirt road off the highway east of Big Pine a few hundred feet above the Owens Valley floor.
