Pictures of Mt Morgenson, Eastern Sierra
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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 |
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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 |
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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)
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