page_title: Mount Conness
section_title: Climbing
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Conness / Climbing
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo taken high on the East Ridge of Mount Conness in the Sierra Nevada
context_page_description: Mount Conness is a 12,590 foot mountain in the Sierra Nevada range, to the west of the Hall Natural Area. Conness is on the boundary between the Inyo National Forest and Yosemite National Park. The Conness Glacier lies north of the summit.
context_section_description: Conness is a training ground for alpine climbing since it utilizes all aspects of mountaineering: trails, scrambling, and glacier trekking; all at a high altitude for California. Usually climbers camp near Tioga Pass and begin the climb at dawn. It takes about a full day to summit.
  The summit block consists of class 2 scrambling along a knife edge ridge leading to the summit consisting of views to the east of the Conness Glacier and to the west toward Tuolumne Meadows.
caption: East ridge of Mount Conness
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