Talk:Palisades (California Sierra)

"Southernmost glaciers in North America"

I deleted this unreferenced claim, as three Mexican volcanoes have glaciers: Popocatépetl, Iztaccíhuatl, and Pico de Orizaba. Jim Heaphy (talk) 00:44, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Good call. It would be nice to know if there is a source listing them as the southernmost glaciers in the U.S., however. -- Spireguy (talk) 02:55, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I could not find an RS supporting that. —hike395 (talk) 04:09, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Cryptic comment on my edit summary

Should have read "per WP:Mountains", not WP:M. --Justin 04:46, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Mountain Range?

Since this article was created, a mountain range infobox has come into use. Here's your chance for input: any reason I shouldn't add the infobox to this article? --Justin (talk) 00:40, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

The Palisades aren't usually considered a mountain range, so far as I know. They are a part of the Sierra Nevada range. Several collections of peaks in the Sierra Nevada are referred to collectively, like the Kaweahs and the Evolution peaks, but they are just ridgelines or geographically-close. Or, am I wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Will Beback (talk • contribs) 00:55, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

After thinking about it for a couple of days, I agree on this. There are lots of "subranges" and groups of peaks throughout the Sierra Nevada, but they're not grouped based on any consistent standard. I'm going to revert a couple of other SN peak group categories I changed from ranges back to peaks. --Justin (talk) 15:16, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

New elevations seem wrong

The GNIS elevations seem wrong, in some cases, by a wide margin. This is not due to vertical datum, which only alters the elevation by 3 meters or so. I suspect that they are the elevations for the benchmark points, which are probably far from the summits. For another source, see The Peakbagger.com page on the Palisades. I'm going to change the elevations to the peakbagger ones, unless we have further discussions. hike395 (talk) 03:33, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

OK, GNIS isn't perfect. But that removed numerous references so please add new ones to replace them. You know the verification routine. Nevermind - I see that you did that. At first the diff looked like a simple revert. Ikluft (talk) 04:10, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Reason for page move

I believe the area is usually refered to as The Palisades. See:

Roper, Steve (1976). The Cimber's Guide to the Sierra Nevada. Sierra Club. p. 187. ISBN 0871561476.

Secor, R.J. (2009). The High Sierra Peaks, Passes, and Trails (3rd ed.). Seattle: The Mountaineers. p. 217. ISBN 978-0898869712.

Clyde, Clyde (1966). Close Ups of the High Sierra. La Siesta Press.

Starr, Walter A. (1967). Star's Guide. Sierra Club.

Usually in these works the group is referred to at the Palisades, however both Roper and Secor have chapters titled The Palisades. –droll [chat] 00:42, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

I think this was a bad idea. I reverted my changes. –droll [chat] 03:31, 14 February 2013 (UTC)