Pictures of Mt Morgenson, Eastern Sierra

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Highlights


From start to end

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Mt Morgenson is not named on most maps (4245m)
Click here for the route from Whitney Portal to the Lower Boyscout Lake
Leave the trail before the lake and start walking up to your right



The route up

No sign - just leave the trail to the right

More views of Whitney

Mt Carillon


More views of Whitney

The lower Boyscout Lake down below

The other side

Deer


Avoid the granite slabs of the left side

The first view of the Carillon-Cleaver gulley

Cleaver

Passing the Cleaver's south subpeak


Passing the Cleaver's south subpeak

Passing the Cleaver's south subpeak

Entering the gulley

The small plateau


Waterfalls

The small plateau from above

Towards the big plateau

The small plateau from above


The dead end of the gulley against the Cleaver

The first groove is the right chute

The route

Approaching the chute


Looking back

The "cliff"

The chute


The Cleaver's south subpeak

The tiniest glacier

Both

Looking back


The cliff

Entering the chute

Entering the chute

Turning left into the notch


The ridge connecting Cleaver's main peak to the southern subpeak

Cleaver's southern subpeak

The Cleaver

Above the cliff


Towards the pass

The Cleaver's ridge and Owens Valley

Looking down

The Carillon-Cleaver pass


The Cleaver and Owens Valley

Cleaver's southern subpeak

The pass

Tulainyo Lake


Mt Carillon

The lower point is not the pass

The top of the chute (if you had climbed the chute to the top, which i don't recommend)


Panorama: Mt Russell, the unnamed lake below it, Tulainyo Lake, Tunnabora and the Cleaver from the pass


Mountains to the far northwest

The location of the pass if you are coming from Tulainyo (note the vertical stripes of Carillon)

Remember the stripes for the way back

Tunnabora and the lake


Wildflowers

The pass from the northern side

The pass from below

The Cleaver-Carillon pass: note the vertical stripes of Carillon


The lake

The Carillon-Russell pass (higher)

Looking back at the Cleaver and the pass (the pass is all the way to the right, NOT the lowest point)

Looking back at the Cleaver and the pass


The pass from the other side of the lake

Tunnabora

Tunnabora

Great Western Divide from Lake Tulainyo's northwestern corner


Panorama: Tunnabora to Carillon


Mt Morgenson

Mt Russell's north ridge

Mt Russell's north ridge

Mt Russell's west and east peaks


The traverse to Mt Morgenson (not recommended)

Mt Morgenson

Passing Mt Russell's north face


Passing Mt Russell's north face

Mt Morgenson

Approaching Morgenson's east face

Looking back at Tunnabora


Mt Barnard and higher behind it Mt Williamson (Lake Wallace in the foreground)

Mt Barnard (top left) and Lake Wallace

Tunnabora and Tulainyo

Mt Williamson


Mt Williamson

Mt Williamson's North Bairs' route

Up Mt Morgenson's east face

Mt Barnard and Lake Wallace (3497m)


Panorama: Williamson to Tulainyo


Up Morgenson

Mt Russell's peaks

Mt Russell's north ridge route

Up Morgenson


The ridge connecting Russell and Morgenson

Up Morgenson

Hiker on top of Mt Russell

At the base of the summit block


The summit block

Up the summit block

First views of Arctic Lake, Guitar Lake, etc

Mt Whitney


You can see the crowd on top of Whitney

Best view of Mt Whitney's eastern chutes (the mountaineering route)

Near the top

The left side is scary


The top

Lake Wales and Lake Wallace

Lake Tulainyo

Mt Russell


the Russell-Whitney saddle

Mt Russell

Mt Morgenson's summit

Mt Morgenson's summit


Arctic Lake, Guitar Lake, etc

The summit register

Register

Not many people summit this one


Looking down the Whitney side

The gap to the west

Lake Wales and Lake Wallace (and Mt Barnard above Wallace)


Whitney to Hale


Tunnabora, Tulainyo, Russell, Whitney


Great Western Divide and Kaweah range


Barnard, Williamson, Tulainyo


Mt Williamson

Mt Barnard to the left, Williamson in the middle

Lake Wallace and Mt Barnard (right above the creek drainage)

Mt Whitney


Arctic, Guitar, etc lakes

The chute to go down towards the Whitney-Russell saddle

Huge gap to the west

Huge gap to the west


The northern route

Tunnabora, Cleaver and the lake

Tulainyo and Russell

Wildflowers at 4000 meters


Tunnabora, Cleaver and Russell (Carillon is covered)

Lake Tulainyo, the highest named lake in the USA (video)

View from the top of Mt Morgenson (video)

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(Copyright © 2015 Piero Scaruffi)
If you would like the original, high-resolution pictures, contact me