Inyo Forest Topo Atlas

High Sierra Topo Map
Eastern Sierra Nevada, California

Inyo National Forest Atlas

fishing map The INYO atlas, is a spiral bound book – a collection of all the quads. (7.5 minute topographical maps, of all of Inyo National Forest) Both sides of US Highway 395! From Olancha to Yosemite, Bodie ghost town to Darwin near Death Valley. This book map has detailed topo lines, mountain peaks, streams, lakes, hot springs, hiking trails & back roads. Perfect for all kinds of recreational needs. 117 pages. Printed in 2014. ISBN# 9781628114058

South Lake near Bishop CA

regional towns:

Inyo National Forest

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Cottonwood Lakes and Horseshoe Meadow, an alternate hiking approach to Mount Whitney

hikers map

Inyo National Forest QUADS:
from south to north

- Coso Junction
- Long Canyon
- Crag Peak (9455′ elev)
- Haiwee Reservoirs
- Haiwee Pass
- Casa Vieja Meadows
- Monache Mountain (9410′ elev)
- Hockett Peak
- Kern Lake
- Kern Peak (11,510′ elev)
- Templeton Mountain (9932′ elev)
- Olancha
- Chagoopa Falls
- Johnson Peak (11,371′ elev)
- Cirque Peak (12,900′ elev)
- Bartlett
- Lone Pine
- Mount Langley
- Mount Whitney (14,494′ elev)
- Mount Brewer
- Mount Williamson (14,375′ elev)
- Manzanar
- Union Wash
- Pat Keyes Canyon
- Bee Springs Canyon
- Independence
- Kearsarge Peak
- Mount Clarence King (12,905′ elev)
- Mount Pinchot (13,495′ elev)
- Aberdeen
- Blackrock
- Mazourka Peak (9410′ elev)
- Waucoba Canyon
- Waucoba Mountain (11,123′ elev)
- Waucoba Spring
- Tinemaha Reservoir
- Fish Springs
- Split Mountain (14,058′ elev)
- North Palisade (14,242′ elev)
- Mount Goddard
- Mount Darwin
- Mount Thompson
- Coyote Flat
- Big Pine
- Ulhmeyer Spring
- Cowhorn Valley
- Joshua Flats
- Deep Springs Lake
- Westguard Pass (7271′ elev) Hwy 168
- Poleta Canyon
- Bishop
- Tungsten Hills
- Mount Tom (13,652′ elev)
- Mount Hilgard
- Graveyard Peak
- Mount Abbot (13,715′ elev)
- Mount Morgan (13,005′ elev)
- Rovana
- Fish Slough
- Laws
- Blanco Mountain (11,278′ elev)
- Crooked Creek
- Chocolate Mountain (7703′ elev)
- Indian Garden Creek
- Station Peak
- Mount Barcroft
- Chalfant Valley
- Chidago Canyon
- Casa Diablo Mountain (7912′ elev)
- Toms Place
- Convict Lake
- Bloody Mountain (12,544′ elev)
- Crystal Crag
- Cattle Mountain
- Timber Knob
- Mount Lyell
- Mount Ritter (13,141′ elev)
- Mammoth Mountain
- Old Mammoth
- Whitmore Hot Springs
- Watterson Canyon
- Banner Ridge
- Hammil Valley
- White Mountain Peak
- Juniper Mountain (7862′ elev)
- Dyer
- East of Davis Mountain
- Davis Mountain (12,310′ elev)
- Boundary Peak
- Benton
- Benton Hot Springs
- Glass Mountain
- Dexter Canyon
- Crestview
- June Lake
- Koip Peak (12,979′ elev)
- Vogelsang Peak (11,516′ elev)
- Tioga Pass
- Mount Dana (13,053′ elev)
- Lee Vining
- Mono Hills
- Cowtrack Mountain
- Indian Meadows
- River Spring
- Truman Meadows
- Mount Mongomery
- Volcanic Hills West
- Jacks Spring
- Huntoon Spring
- West of Huntoon Spring
- Alameda Well
- Sulphur Pond
- Negit Island
- Lundy Lake
- Dunderberg Peak (12,374′ elev)
- Cedar Hill
- Anchorite Hills

Inyo back roads, 4×4 routes and hiking trailheads

Inyo National Forest Topo Maps, Topographical Inyo Map, Eastern Sierra, Olancha Peak, Lone Pine, Alabama Hills, Whitney, Mammoth, June Lake, Rock Creek, Lee Vining, Bishop, Sabrina, Palisades Glacier, Onion Valley, Independence, Coyote Flat Lake

Palisades Trail Map

Palisades Trail Map
by Tom Harrison Maps

Eastern Sierra / Palisade Glacier / Norman Clyde Glacier

Tom Harrison Map: The Palisades Trail Map, Bishop Pass Area, Backpacking High Sierra; Areas include: Mount Sill, Mount Jepson, Mount Winchell, Big Pine Lakes, Palisades Basin, North Palisade, Thunderbolt Peak, Norman Clyde Glacier, Middle Palisade Glacier, Inyo National Forest, Inyo High Country, Sierra High Country; Hiking Maps Backpacking Trip, California Sierra Camping.

OLDER EDITION

Durable, Shaded-relief topographic map printed on waterproof plastic; GPS Compatible – Complete UTM Grid. Folded. Map Scale: 31.7K; ISBN# 9781877689970

The Palisades Trail Map covers the Big Creek area of the Eastern Sierra on the boundary between Kings Canyon National Park and Inyo National Forest. Map includes the Palisades and Norman Clyde Glaciers, Bishop and Mather Pass, and the Big Pine Lakes.

Big Pine Lakes
Mount Sill
Mount Jepson
Mount Winchell
North Palisade
Norman Clyde Glacier
Mid Palisade Glacier
Thunderbolt Peak

download digital version of this map –
The Palisades Map

Autumn Colors meet SNOW in early October

nearby towns:
Big Pine, CA
Bishop, CA

The Palisade Glacier is a glacier located on the northeast side of the Palisades within the John Muir Wilderness. The glacier descends from the flanks of four mountain peaks over 14,000′ in elevation of which North Palisade 14,242′ is third highest peak in the Sierra Nevada Range.

The cirque containing the Palisade Glacier has a history of thousands of years of glaciation. The modern glacier attained its last maximum extent during the Little Ice Age, between 250 and 170 years ago – a period also known as the Matthes glaciation in the Sierra Nevada.

The glacier is under a mile long and half mile wide. It is located between 13,400 and 12,000; elevation and moves at a rate of 20 feet per year, although it is also retreating. Palisade Glacier is one of the few glaciers in California that terminates in a proglacial lake dammed by its former moraine and the lake is turquoise colored from the glacial powder suspended in the water. The Big Pine Lakes below the glacier are also the same color.

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Yosemite National Park Books

Yosemite National Park is internationally recognized for its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, giant sequoia groves, lakes, mountains, meadows, glaciers, and biological diversity. Nearly 95% of the park is designated wilderness.

Yosemite is one of the largest and least fragmented habitat blocks in the Sierra Nevada, and the park supports a diversity of plants and animals. The park has an elevation range from 2,127 to 13,114 feet and contains five major vegetation zones: chaparral and oak woodland, lower montane forest, upper montane forest, subalpine zone, and alpine. Of California’s 7,000 plant species, about 50% occur in the Sierra Nevada and more than 20% are within Yosemite. The park contains suitable habitat for more than 160 rare plants, with rare local geologic formations and unique soils characterizing the restricted ranges many of these plants occupy.

The geology of the Yosemite area is characterized by granitic rocks and remnants of older rock. About 10 million years ago, the Sierra Nevada was uplifted and then tilted to form its relatively gentle western slopes and the more dramatic eastern slopes. The uplift increased the steepness of stream and river beds, resulting in the formation of deep, narrow canyons. About one million years ago, snow and ice accumulated, forming glaciers at the higher alpine meadows that moved down the river valleys. Ice thickness in Yosemite Valley may have reached 4,000 feet during the early glacial episode. The downslope movement of the ice masses cut and sculpted the U-shaped valley that attracts so many visitors to its scenic vistas today.

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