Above Treeline

Reviving an old thread Sunset on Ben Starav Loch Etive at dusk

Looking NE from the summit of Mount Langley across the Miter Basin towards Mt. Whitney.

<span class=”adventure-description”>Mt. Tijeras</span> above lower Sand Creek Lake near the Great Sand Dunes National Monument

let’s take a “short cut” to the upper lake……..

we are kinda high up here (looking back at the lower lake)

Goats wondering what the silly humans are doing.

lake should be just down hill from here

can’t be that steep ……. see the lakes right there ……….

made it to the upper lake

Let’s try a different way back to camp……….

I can’t find a picture of the trail back but it was across a seam/goat trail in the middle of this cliff face.

2012 Trip into Sand Creek Lakes Colorado.

We did the same trip a year later and the weather was much different…………it is affectionately referred to as the frozen Sand Creek trip…….

Rae Lakes Loop, Kings Canyon, CA.  Sept 2018.

Sixty Lakes Basin

Sixty Lakes Basin

Sixty Lakes Basin from Mt. Cotter.

Gardiner Basin from Mt. Cotter.

Tupungato (5570 m, 21,555 ft) climb, Chile

3 days up the Rio Colorado river valley to basecamp

Night 2 at Vega de los Flojos along the Rio Colorado (Bella peak behind).

View of Bella after the storm

Camp I at 4878 m (16,000 ft.)

Ken on the final snow slopes below the summit.

Looking back at Tupungato (upper right) on the hike out.