Pictures of Los Padres Dam to Double Cone, Ventana Wilderness

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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)

View from the top (movie)


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