Getting to the Los Padres Dam |
Getting to the Los Padres Dam |
Getting to the Los Padres Dam |
The dam |
The dam |
The fire road to Big Pines (shorter route) |
The hiker's trailhead to Big Pines (nicer route) |
Up the switchbacks of the hikers' trail |
Up the switchbacks of the hikers' trail |
Up the switchbacks of the hikers' trail |
Fork to Danish Creek and Big Pines |
BP = Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Danish Creek |
Danish Creek |
Danish Creek |
Danish Creek |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Towards Big Pines |
Go left for Big Pines |
To Big Pines |
Big Pines Camp |
Big Pines |
Double Cone and K to its right |
Mt Manuel (Julia Pfeiffer Park) |
Double Cone (center) to Mt Manuel from Big Pines |
Double Cone and K |
Pat's Spring |
Bottcher's Gap |
Double Cone trail in Big Pines |
To Double Cone |
To Double Cone |
To Double Cone |
To Double Cone |
Double Cone and K |
Pico Blanco |
Looking towards Mt Manuel |
K to Pico Blanco (and ocean views) |
To Double Cone |
Lookout sign |
To Double Cone |
AFC11? |
To Double Cone |
Double Cone & K |
Pico Blanco and ocean |
Double Cone (barely visible) & K |
A5? |
Bushwhacking |
View east |
Deafalls |
To Double Cone |
Looking southeast |
Looking southeast |
The trail climbs that ridge and then heads straight towards Double Cone |
To Double Cone |
To Double Cone |
To Double Cone |
Not Double Cone |
View west (with Pico Blanco sticking out) |
Some kind of marker? |
To Double Cone |
Circle of Stone (Lone Pine camp?) |
To Double Cone |
Skinner Ridge |
To Double Cone |
To Double Cone |
To Double Cone |
K |
To Double Cone |
To Double Cone |
Marker for the Puerto Suello trail? |
To Double Cone |
To Double Cone |
K & Pico Blanco |
Antenna |
To the summit |
The lookout |
View east |
The lookout |
The lookout |
View south |
South |
View northeast (including the way we came) |
From Mt Manuel to Bottcher's Gap |
Lookout |
Lookout |
Mt Manuel |
How to get there from Big Sur following the drainage |
Northwest (K in the foreground, the Bottcher's Gap side of things in the back) |