I took heaps of photos, but I've only scanned a few, and the
colours aren't quite right yet. Give me time!
 | Setting out. The lake on the left had
all manner of boats on it. An outboard motorboat drifted by, the
cover off the motor and someone looking a little worried... People
sailing were disappointed, what with the several-thousand foot
mountains making the wind a little gusty.
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 | Over the first pass, starting to think
about finding somewhere to stay for the night, but geez, we can go
another mile if need be. Making camp without flashlights is nicer.
As it turned out, we found a couple more such lakes, but the good
campsites were taken, so we pressed on, lost the trail, found it
again, and sprinted, after dark, up another mile of trail to yet
another higher lake. It was very dark up there, so I don't have any
pictures, but the Andromeda Galaxy was quite obvious without any
help. The best place to camp was not. But at that point we didn't
really care. Dinner was fabulous!
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 | Day two, very close to the of the
second, very high pass here, with misty mountains everywhere! We just
came from the lake to the right of Marcin's head. Yes, I understand
backlighting better now :)
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 | Here we all are, eating lunch at the
top. The ground was all like that, just pebbles and boulders, with
the persistent trees struggling for life. They will fail. Mwahahaha.
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 | Mike posing in front of the
Tahoe-side watershed during lunch time. I think that's the lake in
the next few pictures, but I really can't be sure. I wonder what he
was doing down there...
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 | I think that this is the first picture
looking down on the last big lake of the hike. I took quite a few
pictures of it, as you can see...
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 | An hour later, and we're not there yet.
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 | Right at the shore of that lake. The
water is much colder than it looks, but that didn't stop us all from
going for a quick swim. Marcin's quick swim took like a half hour.
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 | As you can see, we're still really
quite high up. Many dayhikers are coming the other way, to visit the
lake. There were many of these gorgeous still ponds. I kept trying
to capture them on film, and this is about the best I could do.
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