North America, United States, California—Sierra Nevada, Sugarloaf Dome, Kings Canyon Area

Publication Year: 1981.

Sugarloaf Dome, Kings Canyon Area. The unsuspected number of granite domes on the west side of the Sierra Nevada is surprising. Alan Roberts and I found a very picturesque dome of the exfoliating type on the high benchland north of Kings Canyon in October, 1979. We chose a route on the bald west face, some 600 feet in height. The line was a classic, with thin crack problems, a strange committing type of overhang, and challenging friction-slab problems. The rock is solid, and in many ways similar to the domes of Tuolomne Meadows, but hidden among the hilly folds and pines in the morning shadow of Mount Brewer. (NCCS III, F8.)

Fred Beckey