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HIGH SIERRA: LECONTE DIVIDE : Six Pack of Passes - the LeConte Divide ~ Sept 19-25, 2019(113) images

This trip is something I've wanted to do for a long time. I'm glad I waited until this year. I had an incomplete vision of what was possible and what would work for me. Two trip reports helped. One from Peaks for Freaks and the other, a Flickr album by Craig Taylor opened my eyes to how much more there was than just getting to Hell for Sure Lake and Pass. Indeed.   

View Trip Map for loop details and campsite locations

WANDERING AROUND ABOVE THE MAXSON TRAILHEAD ROAD THE AFTERNOON BEFORE STARTING IN

ANOTHER VIEW OF DOMES AND FAR AWAY GODDARD FROM THE SLABS ABOVE THE MAXSOM TRAILHEAD ROAD

WANDERING AROUND ON THE SLABS ABOVE THE ACCESS ROAD

BACK AT MY SPOT FOR THE NIGHT

EVENING VIEW OF LECONTE DIVIDE FROM COURTRIGHT DOMES

STORM CLEARING NEAR MAXSON TRAILHEAD

FOGGY MORNING NEAR THE MAXSON TRAILHEAD

LOOKING EAST TO THE LECONTE DIVIDE

SHORELINE FLEMING LAKE

NOT FAR FROM THE DEVILS PUNCHBOWL JCT

LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO STAY NEAR THE DEVILS PUNCHBOWL JCT

STARTING UP THE SLABS ABOVE BIG SHOT LAKE ON THE WAY TO LUCIFER PASS

LAST LITTLE TARN BEFORE STARTING UP THE SLABS TO LUCIFER PASS

SMALL BUT DRAMATIC ROCK FACES

LOOKING BACK TO THE DEVIL'S PUNCHBOWL FROM THE TOP OF THE PASS

TOMORROWS FARAWAY GUNSIGHT PASS FROM LUCIFER 2

LOOKING BACK AT LUCIFER 2 FROM NEAR CRABTREE LAKE

WORKING MY WAY UP THE SLABS ABOVE CRABTREE LAKE

CONFUSION PEAKS AND SCHOOLMARM LAKE

SHORELINE SCHOOLMARM LAKE

EVENING SELFIE AT SCHOOLMARM AND SIX SHOOTER LAKES

CAMPSITE BETWEEN SCHOOLMARM AND SIX SHOOTER LAKES

EVENING, SHORELINE SCHOOLMARM LAKE

ANOTHER END OF THE DAY VIEW, SHORELINE SCHOOLMARM LAKE

ANOTHER END OF THE DAY VIEW, SHORELINE SCHOOLMARM LAKE

GREAT EXAMPLE OF GLACIAL POLISHING NEAR SIX SHOOTER LAKE

LATE DAY VIEW AS THE SUN SETS IN THE WEST

SIX SHOOTER LAKE AT THE END OF DAY 2

HOLSTER AND HORSEHEAD PEAKS AT SUNSET

PASSING SIX SHOOTER LAKE THE NEXT MORNING

AFTER A COUPLE OF SMALL LAKES THE WORK STARTS ON THE ASCENT TO GUNSIGHT PASS

ANOTHER VIEW OF THE SCREE AT THE START TOWARDS GUNSIGHT PASS

CONFUSION PEAKS FROM NEAR THE TOP OF GUNSIGHT PASS

FARAWAY MARTHA LAKE AND IN THE FOREGROUND CONFUSION LAKE

LOOKING BACK UP AT GUNSIGHT PASS FROM CONFUSION LAKE

GUNSIGHT PASS AND CONFUSION LAKE

LOOKING DOWN AT RAINBOW LAKE FROM THE SHOULDER ABOVE CONFUSION LAKE

PART OF THE ROUTE I TOOK TO GET AROUND RAINBOW LAKE

THE PATH AHEAD. THE GOAL: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN DIVISION AND PEARL LAKES

A SMALL TARN NEAR BIGHORN LAKE

MELLOW SLABS ON THE WAY UP TO DIVISION LAKE

DAY 3 CAMPSITE BETWEEN DIVISION AND PEARL LAKES

DAY 3 CAMPSITE BETWEEN DIVISION AND PEARL LAKES

SUNSET VIEW OF FINGER PEAK AND THE CONVENIENT CROSSING OF THE LECONTE DIVIDE AT FINGER COL

LATE DAY VIEW OF OYSTER PEAK

SUNSET VIEW OF OYSTER PEAK

SUNSET AND FINGER PEAK FROM PEARL LAKE

SUNSET REFLECTION OF OYSTER PEAK

MORNING DAY 4

THE KEY PASSAGE TO EASILY GET TO THE BASIN BELOW FINGER COL

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