(Copyright © 2010 Piero Scaruffi)
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Notes of this trip
| Back to California hikes | Pictures of the world The last campground |
The road by the campground (last legal place to park overnight) |
No overnight parking beyond this point |
The tiny parking lot at the trailhead |
The trailhead by the road, just before the dam |
The trail |
Lake Sabrina's resort |
Lake Sabrina's resort |
Lake Sabrina's resort |
Lake Sabrina and White Mountains |
Lake Sabrina |
First view of Mt Darwin (tiny highest point) |
Lake Sabrina |
Lake Sabrina |
Sunrise over Lake Sabrina |
Sunrise over Lake Sabrina |
Sunrise over Lake Sabrina |
Sunrise over Lake Sabrina |
Mountains to the northwest of Lake Sabrina |
Mt Haeckel from Lake Sabrina |
Mountains to the northwest of Lake Sabrina |
Mountains to the west of Lake Sabrina |
Mountains to the west of Lake Sabrina |
Mountains south of Lake Sabrina |
Lake Sabrina |
The trail |
Blue Lake |
Blue Lake |
Blue Lake |
Blue Lake |
Blue Lake |
Blue Lake |
Mountains southwest |
Mountains southeast |
Mountains southeast |
Mt Darwin from Blue Lake |
Crossing to the other side |
The trail |
To Dingleberry Lake |
The trail |
Towards Dingleberry Lake |
Towards Dingleberry Lake |
Dingleberry Lake |
Mountains from Dingleberry Lake (Mt Haeckel is the highest) |
Mountains from Dingleberry Lake |
Dingleberry Lake |
Dingleberry Lake |
Fork to Midnight Lake and Hungry Packer Lake |
Dingleberry Lake |
Dingleberry Lake |
Crossing Dingleberry Lake |
Crossing Dingleberry Lake |
Towards Midnight Lake |
Towards Midnight Lake |
Towards Midnight Lake |
Fork to Midnight Lake or Hungry Packer Lake |
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Mt Darwin's East Face |
The chute to ascend from Midnight Lake |
Mt Darwin and Midnight Lake |
AScending the chute |
Ascending the chute |
Midnight Lake and Dingleberry Lake |
Owens Valley and the White Mountains to the east |
Midnight Lake |
Hungry Packer Lake to the left |
Ascending the crest (Haeckel on the upper left, the pinnacle on the right) |
Hungry Packer Lake |
View of the top of chute as it splits the crest in two |
The waterfall that feeds Hungry Packer Lake |
The waterfall that feeds Hungry Packer Lake |
The waterfall that feeds Hungry Packer Lake |
Mt Haeckel top right |
The valley up to the Haeckel-Darwin pass (Haeckel on the left, Hawkins on the right) |
Midnight Lake to Dingleberry Lake |
Midnight Lake to Dingleberry Lake to Owens Valley |
Mt Hawkins to the right |
Midnight Lake from past the pinnacle |
The steep chute to Midnight Lake |
Midnight Lake to Owens Valley |
Moonlight Lake, east of Hungry Packer Lake and higher of it |
But there are many little ponds |
The pinnacle behind me (the steep chute is on its left, the crest and mild chute are behind it) |
Second lake and Mt Haeckel |
Second lake |
Last lake and Mt Haeckel |
Up the chute towards Mt Hawkins |
Up the chute towards Mt Hawkins |
Mt Haeckel and Mt Wallace to its right |
The other side (the slope goes down to Evolution Lake) |
The Palisades in the distance |
Mt Haeckel and Mt Wallace |
The last lake at the foot of Mt Haeckel |
The other side of the Haeckel-Darwin Pass |
The rib that leads from Mt Hawkins to Mt Darwin |
A chute to go down the other side |
The other side |
The other side going down to Evolution Lake |
View west from the top |
Mt Wallace and the Haeckel-Darwin pass |
The wall between the Haeckel-Darwin pass and "the other side" |
The other side towards Sapphire lake (John Muir trail) |
The other side towards Sapphire lake (John Muir trail) |
Mt Haeckel and the last lake |
Mt Wallace and the Haeckel-Darwin pass |
Lake to the right of Spencer |
Palisades |
Palisades to the left and far to the right Williamson |
Haeckel-Darwin pass to the left, Mt Hawkins crest and the wall to the right |
The summit |
Mt Darwin's east face |
Mt Darwin's east face |
Blue Heron Lake |
Mt Lamack in the distance, Lamarck Pass, and the route to the Darwin glacier (lower half) |
Rib from Hawkins to Darwin |
I didn't find a register so i started one |
I didn't find a register so i started one |
Hungry Packer Lake and its higher eastern neighbor, Moonlight Lake |
Blue Heron Lake to Owens Valley |
Hungry Packer Lake and its higher eastern neighbor, Moonlight Lake |
Blue Heron Lake |
Owens Valley and the white mountains from Mt Hawkins' top |
The vertical northern side of Mt Hawkins |
The vertical northern side of Mt Hawkins |
One of the two chutes to go down to Blue Heron Lake |
Mt Hawkins' vertical northern side |
Mt Hawkins' vertical northern side |
Another chute |
This one is aligned with Haeckel's nothern ridge |
More lakes on the way down |
More lakes on the way down |
More lakes on the way down |
More lakes on the way down |
More lakes on the way down (Topsy Turvy?) |
More lakes on the way down |
More lakes on the way down |
More lakes on the way down |
(Copyright © 2010 Piero
Scaruffi)
If you would like the original, high-resolution pictures, contact me