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
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(Copyright © 2012 Piero Scaruffi)
If you would like the original, high-resolution pictures, contact me