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) |