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Nov 18, 2014 · Thanks to Clyde’s job as the winter caretaker of Glacier Lodge, he had enough years of skiing up into the Palisades most days to blow my puny three years right out of the water. And John Fischer, my first boyhood climbing partner who ended up owning the Palisade School of Mountaineering.
John Fischer (September 13, 1946 – June 5, 2010) was an American mountaineer, climbing guide and route pioneer, and was one of the 11 founding members of the American Mountain Guides Association in 1979. He was the owner of the Palisade School of Mountaineering in Bishop, California.
Sep 1, 2010 · John was the owner of the Palisade School of Mountaineering (PSOM: pronounced “possum”) for 12 years and was the director of the climbing school. There, he guided and exposed countless people to the mountains both in the Sierra and throughout the world.
My earliest climbing partner, John Fischer, had already been there— crampons lashed to his tan canvas-and-leather pack—and he’d returned, wide-eyed, with the tale of having survived a starlit bivy on North Palisade.
Apr 11, 2024 · The Palisade School of Mountaineering seemed to me a really excellent school. So many great climbers taught and guided there over the decades going clear back to its beginnings as Mountaineering Guide Service in 1959. The first commercial climbing school in California.
Jul 2, 2012 · Our plan was to climb the Full Palisades traverse casually, fully enjoying this most iconic of Sierra climbing. What is hard or what is fast depends on the climber, but what is casual should follow a couple simple rules: no night climbing, stay always in good spirits, and no type II or type III fun. We were able to follow those rules with the ...
Climb the Palisades from Palisade Basin on the Southwest side in a 5-day itinerary! This approach takes you to the most rugged and glaciated part of the High Sierra for classic, technical alpine climbing.
