Pictures of Split Mt

(Copyright © 2014 Piero Scaruffi)
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Highlights


From start to end

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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

View from Split Mt (video)


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(Copyright © 2014 Piero Scaruffi)
If you would like the original, high-resolution pictures, contact me