Glen Pass, Kings Canyon National Park

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Hide... Going right from the llamas, Mt. Cotter and then Clarence King are prominent. Farther right some of the most distant peaks are in the Palisades group. The orange peak just right of the nearby white summit is Mt. Pinchot. Diamond Peak is above the leftmost of the Rae Lakes, Black Mountain above the rightmost (Upper) Rae Lake. The nearer peak with a black top above white rock is Painted Lady. The rightmost peak is Dragon Peak before the ridgeline of Glen Pass blocks the view. The most prominent peak to the southwest is Mt Brewer, near the north end of the Great Western Divide. The closer ridge below Brewer is Mt. Bago, which rises from the not-visible Charlotte Lake. The Sierra crest to the south is hidden by nearby ridges, but Mt. Stanford (on the Kings-Kern divide) appears in a notch. The trail down by unnamed glacial tarns heads towards Vidette Meadow.

Glen Pass separates complex pre-Late-Cretaceous-age metamorphic and igneous rocks to the north from the ~100 Ma Bullfrog Pluton to the south and west. The edge of the Bullfrog pluton is visible just south of the ridgeline of the pass to both the east and west. In the distance, the Mt. Brewer region is comprised of the Paradise pluton, part of the Whitney intrusive sequence that is the youngest of the Sierran granites. The Bullfrog pluton intrudes the older, darker mafic plutonic rocks near the pass down to Upper Rae Lake; beyond the Dragon pluton surrounds the lower parts of the Rae Lakes. Some pieces of the metamophic Oak Creek roof pendant appear in Diamond Peak.

The area has been heavily glaciated, mostly evident as erosional forms like aretes and cirques. Some morainal material is visible on the flanks of Painted Lady.