The Thumb
The Thumb is a 13,356-foot-elevation mountain summit located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Inyo County of northern California. It is situated in the Palisades area of the John Muir Wilderness, on land managed by Inyo National Forest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 13,314 feet
- Description: mountain in California, United States of America
- Also known as: “East Palisade” and “Thumb Peak”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Middle Palisade and Disappointment Peak.
Middle Palisade
Peak
Photo: GarconN2, Public domain.
Middle Palisade is a 14,018-foot peak in the central Sierra Nevada mountain range in the U.S. state of California. It is a fourteener, and lies on the Sierra Crest as part of the Palisades group, a group of prominent Sierra Nevada mountain summits that includes multiple other fourteeners, approximately 12 miles southwest of the town of Big Pine.
Disappointment Peak
Peak
Disappointment Peak is a 13,917-foot-elevation summit located on the shared boundary of Fresno County and Inyo County in California, United States.
Birch Mountain
Peak
Photo: Justin.Johnsen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Birch Mountain, or Paokrung, is one of the fifty highest peaks of California. Of the major peaks of the Palisades, it stands farthest from the Sierra Crest.
The Thumb
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Inyo County, Desert, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.07145° or 37° 4′ 17″ northLongitude
-118.44601° or 118° 26′ 46″ westElevation
13,314 feet (4,058 metres)Open location code
85933HC3+HHOpenStreetMap ID
node 358796276OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“The Thumb” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “The Thumb (bukid sa Estados Unidos, California)”
- Cebuano: “The Thumb”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Birch Creek Pass and Southfork Pass.
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