Pictures of Mt Cloudripper

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Highlights

From start to end

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Fork to Chocolate lakes

Cloudripper in the distance (mountain on the right)

Cloudripper and Chocolate Mountain

Chocolate Mountain reflected in Bull Lake

Bull Lake

More reflections

Wildflower

Wildflowers

Bull Lake

Wildflowers

Chocolate lake

Chocolate Mountain

The last chocolate lake

Chutes to climb the ridge

An incredible number of chutes to go up

Clodripper's location

South of Cloudripper

South of Lake 3

Reflection in Lake 3

Cloudripper from the eastern side of Lake 3

Chocolate Mountain reflected in Lake 3

I picked the chute to the right (2B) but you can pick any of them

This is where it splits (i call them 2A and 2B)

The next chute is wider (chute 3)

Agassiz in the distance

Entering chute 2B

Chute 2B

Chocolate Mountain

Chute 2B

Chocolate Mountain and Chocolate lakes

Switching to chute 3

Chocolate 4 and the Long Lake

Bull Lake and view west

Top of chute 3

Chocolate Mt, Chocolate lakes, Bull Lake and view west

View northwest towards Long Lake and the trail to Bishop Pass

At the summit the first view of Cloudripper

Chocolate Mt and lakes

Mt Agassiz

Long Lake and Bishop Pass trail

Towards the summit

Now the real summit is visible

The summit plateau

View west

View south

Plateau and Cloudtipper

Chute 4 at the top

Chute 4

Seven lake basin from the ridge of Cloudripper

The seven lakes

The Palisades

The Palisades: Gayley, Sill, North Pal, Tunderbolt, Winchell, Agassiz

The real summit

Don't climb it from this side, of course

The plateau and view north

Palisades

Broader view of the Palisades

At the summit

Now you can see both the Chocolate Lakes and the lakes of the Bishop Pass trail

Bull Lake and Chocolate lakes

View west

Seven lake basin

The seven lakes

Palisades

The summit with the sign

Southwest to Mt Humphries

Mt Sill

North Pal

Agassiz

Winchell

Vagabond Peak on the way to Green Lake

Various chutes coming up from Chocolate Lake 3

The register

Getting to the summit: walk to the left

Cloudripper from the plateau

Cloudripper from Vagabond Peak

Cloudripper's summit from Vagabond Peak

Last view of Cloudripper

Green Lake

Vagabond Peak from Green Lake

Green Lake

Vagabond Peak from Green Lake

Green Lake

The next lake down

Green Lake trail

Fall colors

The beginning of the Green Lake at South Lake's Bishop Pass trailhead area