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HIGH SIERRA: WINCHELL : Southeast Ridge ~ June 2-4, 1013(44) images

Bit of a walk up but you can at least keep it aesthetic by looking for harder ways to stay on solid rock. Hot spell moving thru the area that weekend so the snow barely froze. Post holing up from Sam Mack Meadow. Finally got solid up around 12+. Was really slushly on the way down. Walked all the way back to the old walk in campground on the north fork trail that afternoon. Nice to have a picnic table to sit at while killing time.   

BRIDGE NORTH FORK BIG PINE CREEK

DISAPPOINTMENT, MIDDLE AND CLYDE PEAKS

KID MOUNTAIN FROM THE NORTH FORK BIG PINE CREEK

TRAIL NORTH FORK BIG PINE CREEK

2ND LAKE AND TEMPLE CRAG, NORTH FORK BIG PINE CREEK

SAM MACK MEADOW, NORTH FORK BIG PINE CREEK

STREAM CUTTING THROUGH SAM MACK MEADOW

GAYLEY, SILL AND THUNDERBOLT FROM HILLSIDE ABOVE SAM MACK MEADOW

LATE AFTERNOON AT SAM MACK MEADOW, NORTH FORK BIG PINE CREEK

NORTHWEST SIDE OF TEMPLE CRAG, NORTH FORK BIG PINE CREEK

LATE AFTERNOON VIEW OF SILL TO STARLIGHT, NORTH FORK BIG PINE CREEK

STREAM SAM MACK MEADOW, NORTH FORK BIG PINE CREEK

LATE DAY VIEW OF MT SILL,

PRE-DAWN SKIES ON THE WAY TO MT WINCHELL

SUNRISE ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF THUNDERBOLT

STANDARD ROUTE ON WINCHELL

NORTH PAL, STARLIGHT AND THUNDERBOLT AT SUNRISE

NORTH PAL AND STARLIGHT AT SUNRISE

GETTING CLOSER

LOOKING DOWN AT SAM MACK LAKE

NORTH EAST FACE OF THUNDERBOLT

ANOTHER VIEW OF THE ROUTE

FORESHORTENED VIEW OF THE START OF THE ROUTE

NORTH SIDE OF THUNDERBOLT

GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRAVERSE

THE EASY RAMP OUT TO THE ARETE

LOOKING INTO KINGS CANYON BACKCOUNTRY

ANOTHER VIEW FROM THE KNIFE EDGE ARETE LOOKING AT THE SUMMIT

PERCHED ON THE KNIFE EDGE ARETE LOOKING AT THE SUMMIT

FINAL SECTION OF THE ROUTE

LOOKING DOWN THE DRAMATIC NORTH SIDE OF WINCHELL

VIEW FROM THE TOP OF WINCHELL

LOOKING DOWN THE INCREDIBLE WEST FACE OF WINCHELL

DUSY BASIN FROM THE TOP OF WINCHELL

PALISADE BASIN AND AMPHITHEATER LAKE REGION FROM THE TOP OF WINCHELL

LOOKING DOWN THE ROUTE

DUSY BASIN LAKES AND

THE WILDLY PRECIPITIOUS AND TECHNICAL NW RIDGE OF WINCHELL

LOOKING DOWN AT SAM MACK MEADOWS

CAMPSITE AT THE OLD FS WALK-IN CG, NORTH FORK BIG PINE CREEK

SUNRIST THROUGH THE TREES, NORTH FORK BIG PINE CREEK

FIRST LIGHT IN THE VALLEY, NORTH FORK BIG PINE CREEK

APPARENTLY MY FAVORITE PHOTO OP - CLYDE PEAK.

SUMMER HAS ARRIVED

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