Mt Darwin from North Lake
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 Towards lower Lamarck lake |
 Towards lower Lamarck lake |
 Towards lower Lamarck lake |
 Lower Lamarck lake |
 Towards the Upper Lake |
 Towards the Upper Lake |
 Towards the Upper Lake |
 Note: the trail ends here! Cross creek to the left |
 Crossing the creek from Upper lake |
 Crossing the creek from Upper lake |
 Towards the saddle |
 Towards the saddle |
 Towards the saddle |
 Towards the saddle |
 Towards the saddle |
 The saddle |
 Upper Lamarck |
 The saddle |
 Upper Lamarck |
 The trail on the other side |
 Lower Lamarck |
 Towards Mt Lamarck |
 Towards Mt Lamarck |
 Towards Mt Lamarck |
 Towards Mt Lamarck |
 Towards Mt Lamarck |
 Towards Mt Lamarck |
 Towards Mt Lamarck |
 Towards Mt Lamarck |
 Towards Mt Lamarck |
 Towards Mt Lamarck |
 First view of Lamarck Col |
 Behind me |
 Mt Lamarck |
 The Lamarck glacier |
 How to bypass it |
 View south towards Mt Haeckel |
 Mt Darwin, Mendel and unnamed peak |
 Mt Darwin |
 Mt Mendel and unnamed peak |
 Lamarck Col on the south side |
 Lamarck Col from the south |
 Darwin Canyon |
 Mendel and unnamed peak |
 Mt Darwin |
 Descending into Darwin Canyon |
 To climb to Lamarck Col go through the notch between those two prominents rocky outcrops |
 Lake Darwin 4 |
 Darwin 3 |
 Darwin 3 |
 Darwin 2 |
 Darwin 2 |
 Darwin 1 |
 Darwin ledges |
 Looking back from the ledges (the Lamarck Col is all the way to the left) |
 Looking west of Darwin Canyon |
 Looking back to Lamarck Col |
 The ledges |
 Mt Lamarck |
 Entering the John Muir Trail valley |
 Lake 0 |
 Lake 0 |
 Lake 0 |
 Lake 0 |
 Darwin ledges |
 Darwin ledges |
 Evolution Lake |
 Mendel and Darwin from the south |
 Looking south on the John Muir trail |
 Mendel and Darwin |
 Evolution Lake |
 Evolution Lake |
 Evolution Lake |
 Evolution Lake |
 Evolution Lake |
 Evolution Lake |
 Up towards the chutes |
 Mt Darwin |
 Evolution Lake |
 Mt Darwin |
 Evolution Lake |
 The whole Mendel-Darwin face with lots of chutes |
 Mt Darwin |
 Mt Darwin |
 Evolution Lake |
 The way i came up |
 At the base of the Darwin chute |
 View north towards Yosemite |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Mt Mendel |
 Finally on the Darwin plateau |
 Towards the summit block |
 The first view of the lakes to the southeast |
 The eastern route |
 The way to the top from the east |
 Summit block |
 Lakes if coming from Lake Sabrina |
 The plateau looking west |
 View south (including Haeckel and Wallace) |
 View southwest |
 Summit block |
 View |
 Midnight Lake and Backpacker Lake |
 View northeast with Darwin Canyon |
 The way to climb the summit block |
 Summit plateau |
 Summit plateau |
Video of the view from the top
Click here for the route from Lake Sabrina
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