Mt. Goddard
Deep Sierra backcountry · near Bishop · Sierra Nevada / Yosemite
Mountaineering
At a glance
- Grade
- scramble
- Elevation
- 13568
- Best season
- July–September
What is here
- Terrain
- alpine-rock
- Amenities
- Multi-day approach (e.g. from North Lake or Florence Lake) · Deep-backcountry camps · No crowds — true solitude · A peak-bagger's remote prize
- Best for
- A true deep-wilderness expedition summit
- Features
- One of the Sierra's most remote peaks · Only class-2/3, but very hard to reach · Roadless-heart solitude · A serious multi-day expedition
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- Extreme remoteness — days from the nearest road · Self-reliance and navigation essential · Altitude across a long expedition · Weather with no quick escape
- Beginner friendly
- No
Guides, rentals and operators
- Guided trips
- No
Mountaineering detail
- Skills
- scrambling · altitude
- Style
- mixed-alpine
- Altitude
- 4
- Route notes
- One of the most remote summits in the Sierra — a class-2 to class-3 scramble whose challenge is entirely in reaching it, deep in the roadless heart of the range where few climbers ever venture
- Beta note
- ~13,568 ft; Class 2–3, but among the most remote peaks in California — a multi-day expedition
- Intl tip
- A lesson in how an easy peak can be very serious. The summit scramble is only class 2–3, but Goddard sits deep in the roadless heart of the Sierra, days from any trailhead — simply reaching it is a multi-day expedition demanding fitness, navigation, and total self-reliance. Few climbers stand on it; those who do earn a view over an ocean of wilderness with no sign of the modern world. For experienced backcountry travelers who measure a peak by its remoteness as much as its grade.
- Directions note
- Deep-backcountry peak — multi-day approach via Bishop Pass from South Lake
The guide
Mt. Goddard is a lesson in how a peak can be technically easy and yet extremely serious. The summit scramble itself is only cla…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Mt. Goddard — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.1006, -118.7181