Pictures of White Mountain from Jeffrey Mine

(Copyright © 2012 Piero Scaruffi)
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Highlights

From start to end

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White Mountain Peak from Bishop
Map of the trailhead		 See this page for more detailed pictures of the first part of the hike to Black Eagle Camp

White Mountain from the highway
The road to the trailhead
Jeffrey Mine canyon
Jeffrey Mine canyon

The dirt road begins here
The "trailhead" at the end of the dirt road
Towards the cabins
The Jeffrey Mine canyon

Towards the cabins
The trail is not always obvious
Turn right at this sign to check out the cabins
Welcome to Black Eagle camp

The cabins
The cabins

The cabins
The cabins
The canyon from the cabins
The cabins

The museum
The museum
The museum
The cabins

Black Eagle Camp
Above the cabins
Up the trail
Up the trail

Looking back
Looking back
Up the trail
Up the trail

Remnants of mining
Up the trail
Up the trail
Looking back

First views of the summit
First views of the summit
Right before the gendarmes there is a good place to cross the creekbed
The creekbed

Wildflowers
Wildflowers
Wildflowers
Wildflowers

Looking back
The gendarmes from the south ridge
Looking back
The north ridge

Looking back to the cabins and the desert
Looking back to the cabins and the desert
Up the south ridge
There actually at least two south ridges

The north ridge from the south ridge
The saddle and the spine to the West Peak
The spine to the West Peak
The saddle and the spine to the West Peak

The north ridge from the south ridge

Cairns in the middle of the saddle
View south
The north ridge
The north ridge and the valley behind it

Towards the West Peak
Towards the West Peak
Towards the West Peak
The summit

Towards the West Peak
Towards the West Peak
Towards the West Peak
Wildflowers

Towards the West Peak
The summit to the left and the West Peak to the right

View north centered on the summit

Towards the West Peak
The summit in the clouds
The West Peak
The summit

Wildflowers
At the West Peak
At the West Peak
At the West Peak

Looking back from the West Peak
Views
Views
Views

The summit
Downclimbing from the West Peak
Downclimbing from the West Peak
Towards the summit

The route to the summit from the west peak
A glider over the summit
Looking down from the saddle into the canyon to the north, another possible route
The summit very far from the west peak

The ridge to the summit on the right of this picture
Some up and down class-3 moves required
Beginning to downclimb the west peak
Looking back at the ridge to the west peak

Looking back at the ridge to the west peak
The summit still very far - you can see the last chute clearly to the left
The ridge to the top from the west peak
Downclimbing the west peak

Downclimbing the west peak
Looking back at the West Peak after the downclimb
Ignore that saddle way east
The saddle and the top

The saddle
The ridge to the summit
Past the saddle looking back at the West Peak
Just follow the ridge - the summit is not visible for a while

Just follow the ridge - the summit is not visible for a while
A weird saddle to the left of the summit (NOT en route)
Take the lower one
This one

The route to the top
The chute from a distance
The chute to the left, the class-3 route in the middle and the summit cabin
The chute from the bottom

The chute from the top
Last climb to the summit
Staring at the route

Staring at the route from the top of the last chute
View of the route from the summit
USGS marker		 Views from the top

Eastern Sierra panorama

Video of Black Eagle Camp

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(Copyright © 2012 Piero Scaruffi)
If you would like the original, high-resolution pictures, contact me