There are two ways to get to the Red Lake trailhead where the trail to Split Mt begins. Below is the one i recommend (from the Taboose Pass trailhead and parking lot). If you prefer to try the dirt road that takes directly to the Red Lake trailhead (but impassable to low-clearance cars), click here for details | Split Mt from the freeway |
From Taboose Pass trailhead your first destination is the Springs |
Traces of human passage |
Looking back at the Taboose Pass parking lot |
Parking area at the Springs |
At the Springs |
The water at the trailhead |
The real trailhead |
Looking down at the parking lot |
Looking ahead at the drainage (take the right branch of the creek to get to Split Mt) |
Looking back at the valley |
Looking ahead at where the two creeks join |
Looking back at the entrance of the canyon |
At the junction of the two creeks |
After the junction of the two creeks |
After the junction of the two creeks |
Looking back at the creeks |
Climbing |
Moving away from the creek and up |
Vegetation tunnel |
Looking down where the two creeks merge |
Towards the first lake |
Towards the first lake |
One of the tunnels of vegetation |
Towards the first lake |
Towards the first lake |
The first lake and Split Mt |
Split Mt |
At Red lake |
Further up |
Red Lake |
Red Lake |
Towards the moraine |
Towards the moraine |
Red Lake |
Towards the moraine |
Towards the moraine |
Split Mt (the summit is all the way to the left in the back) |
Not the summit |
Looking down at Red Lake from the moraine |
The moraine towards the ridge |
Looking back at the moraine |
The ridge ahead |
Almost at the ridge |
First view of Prater |
The narrow notch (mostly icy - better stay on the ridge) |
At the ridge |
Top of the ridge |
First view of the summit |
Prater |
The ridge from above |
Mt Prater |
The top of the ridge from above |
The view north |
The Palisades |
The route if you are coming from Taboose Pass |
The last lake if you are coming from the north |
Towards the summit |
Towards the summit |
View northwest |
View north (the route if you are coming from Taboose Pass) |
Prater and the Palisades |
Owens Valley |
The summit |
The summit |
Summit register |
Summit marker |
Looking down where we came from |
Owens Valley |
View west |
The view towards the Palisades |
Mt Whitney |
Palisades |
Red Mountain in the middle of Owens Valley |