High Sierra Topix

Maverick,
For ridgelines,I'm with you on the Kaweahs & Minarets. Just dazzling. The Palisades are right up there, too. For unique formations, Devil's Crags may top my list, too. I'm also pretty fond of Valhalla (Angel wings) on the approach to Hamilton Lake and the Whaleback as one heads South in Cloud Canyon. For stare-me-down peaks, Charybdis is very cool, and I get a huge kick out of Milestone's top hat. Come to think of it, the great Western Divide from Lake South America (or thereabouts) is pretty sensational. Hmmm. I'll cogitate some more.
cg

I guess my favorites are the Ritter Range, the Kaweahs, and the Palisades. I like these three ridgelines from both sides, but I actually like the Ritter Range and the Palisades from the west better. Come to think of it, I like the Kaweahs from the west, too, but that's because I can actually see them from Fresno. Of all of these, I think I like Ritter from Twin Island Lake the best.

I like anything tall and jagged, but Glacier Divide is one of my favorite.

A few of my favorites include the Glacier Divide, Minarets/Ritter Range from the west, The ridge between Triple Divide and Post Peak on Yosemite's southern border and the various ridgline/divides of Mono Canyon and the recesses....

While most of you have picked large ridgelines my personal favvorite is quite short. It is the little ridge
that separates the upper lakes in the west fork of Ferguson Creek from the lakes at the head of Box Canyon/E. Fork Sugarloaf Creek. It runs n. from the n. rim of the table lands. One of these days I will go through my old slide collection and get a couple of pics scanned.

Mike

Glacier divide is also high on my list. Here it is in the ski season

One ridgeline that I really love close-up: the east-west portion of the LeConte Divide. What's cool about it is that it's fairly gentle slabs on the south side with a vertical drop on the north side, so you can walk right along the ridgeline.

TehipiteTom wrote:One ridgeline that I really love close-up: the east-west portion of the LeConte Divide. What's cool about it is that it's fairly gentle slabs on the south side with a vertical drop on the north side, so you can walk right along the ridgeline.

So right. This will give you an idea:



And the views from up there are not bad. Looking east/southeast:

oldranger wrote:While most of you have picked large ridgelines my personal favvorite is quite short. It is the little ridge
that separates the upper lakes in the west fork of Ferguson Creek from the lakes at the head of Box Canyon/E. Fork Sugarloaf Creek. It runs n. from the n. rim of the table lands. One of these days I will go through my old slide collection and get a couple of pics scanned.

Mike

That's the one with that nice pinnacle near the top (S end), I recall. That is indeed a nice ridgeline and one not often viewed.

Being of a geology orientation, one of my favorites plutonic igneous ridgelines aka granite was above. The below is one of my favorite extrusive igneous aka volcanic, and more specifically an andesite mudflow breccia: