The Best Rock Climbing Routes in California

At 14,025 feet, Mount Tyndall is the 10th tallest of California's 14ers. It's an impressive-looking peak with many routes to its summit, but all are quite remote, involving a long approach on either the Shepherd Pass Trail or John Muir Trail....

At 14,505 feet above sea level, the top of Mount Whitney is the highest point in the contiguous United States. In the Sierra Nevada, the chain of huge granitic peaks stretching through California, Whitney happens to be the tallest, but it's not actually that formidable to summit....