Tags: Glacier.
The Palisade Glacier is located on the northeast side of the Palisades within the John Muir Wilderness in the central Sierra Nevada of California. The glacier descends from the flanks of four mountain peaks over 14000 ft (4300 m) in elevation of which North Palisade (14242 ft (4341 m)) is third highest peak in the Sierra Nevada Range.The cirque containing the Palisade Glacier has a history of thousands of years of glaciation.
