[2] Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 3,150 feet (960 meters) above Enchanted Gorge in approximately one mile.

This mountain's name refers to Scylla, a metamorphic monster in Greek mythology who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis.

[6] Solomons wrote of Enchanted Gorge: "At half-past one this gorge lay directly south of us, and in an hour we had descended to its head, which we found was guarded by a nearby frozen lake, whose sheer, ice-smoothed walls arose on either side, up and up, seemingly into the very sky, their crowns two sharp black peaks of most majestic form.

As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the range.

Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains into Goddard Creek which is a tributary of the Middle Fork Kings River.