Below you find the pictures from Upper Boy Scout lake up the southern gulley to Mt Russell down the western gulley.
The use trails to climb Mt Russell (from the saddle above Upper Boyscout Lake) |
The trail you make is the trail you take |
Views of Whitney |
Up the gulley |
The view below |
Mt Whitney's mountaineering route on the way to the plateau |
The ridge of the plateau (climb to the left of the Petra-like rock to the right of this picture |
I stayed to the left of this |
The view below |
I aimed for that little pass |
View of a lake that one doesn't see from the north-fork trail |
The "pass" getting closer |
but I stayed to the right of this monolith |
Then went straight up |
The gulley below |
And suddenly the plateau and Mt Russell |
Mt Whitney |
Mt Whitney |
At the plateau: panoramic from Whitney to Russell |
Mt Carillon to the right |
Mt Carillon to the right |
The saddle between Russell and Carillon |
The place where i emerged from the gulley |
Russell's "blade" |
Russell's "blade" |
Russell's "blade" |
Russell's "blade" |
Russell's "blade" |
Russell's "blade" |
Russell's "blade" |
Russell's "blade" |
Mt LeConte (left) and Mt Irvine |
The unnamed lake under Russell |
The unnamed lake under Russell |
Mt Russell's blade to the East Peak |
Mt Russell's blade to the East Peak |
Mt Russell from middle plateau |
Top of the plateau - beginning of the blade |
Approaching the saddle |
Russell's east ridge from the saddle |
The saddle |
The unnamed lake right below the northern side of Russell |
Lake Tulainyo, the highest lake in the contiguous USA (3906m) |
Mt Russell's east ridge from the saddle |
The blade and to the right in the background the East Peak |
Tulainyo Lake |
Mt Carillion |
Panoramic south from Owens Valley to Mt Whitney |
View behind |
Hiking up Russell's East Ridge |
View north |
The way down to Upper Boyscout Lake |
Up the blade |
Up the blade: the East Peak and the northern ridge |
Up the blade |
The blade behind me |
Up the east ridge |
Up the east ridge |
The view down |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
Towards the East Summit |
The top of the Blade and (behind it) the East Summit |
The top of the Blade |
Mt Whitney |
Exposure |
Exposure |
The East Peak (a bit wider than the blade) |
Up the East Peak |
Up the East Peak |
Up the East Peak |
Up the East Peak (i stayed mostly to the left) |
The blade behind me |
East Peak |
Wildflowers |
Wildflowers |
Iceberg Lake and Whitney |
Iceberg Lake |
People on top of Mt Whitney |
View north from the East Peak |
View north from the East Peak (Mt Williamson to the right) |
The south face route from above |
The south face route from above |
The south face route from above |
The end of the south face route |
The West Peak (real summit) |
Looking towards Mt Leconte/Mallory, higher boyscout lake and Iceberg Lake |
The unnamed mountain to the immediate north of Russell |
Mt Williamson (the red chute very visible) |
View west (Whitney to the left) |
View north centered on Mt Williamson |
Mt Russell's two peaks from the north |
Mt Russell's two peaks from the north |
Mt Russell's north face |