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 |