Pictures of 60 Lakes Basin and Rae Lakes

(Copyright © 2015 Piero Scaruffi)
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Mt Whitney Fish Hatchery

Driving to Baxter Pass trailhead

Driving to Baxter Pass trailhead

Driving to Baxter Pass trailhead


Driving to Baxter Pass trailhead

Driving to Baxter Pass trailhead

Driving to Baxter Pass trailhead

Driving to Baxter Pass trailhead


Driving to Baxter Pass trailhead

Ths sign at the Baxter Pass trailhead

Baxter Pass trailhead

The "gate" at the trailhead


Towards Baxter Pass

The creek down below

Behind me

Dead tree, one of many


The first creek crossing

Dying forests all over the place

Owens Valley


Roaring rapids

TOwards the pass

Wildflowers

Wildflowers


Towards the pass

Towards the pass

The creek comes down from the left, the pass is all the way to the right

Towards the pass


Behind me

Towards the pass

The trail bends to the right

The bowl


The trail

Down below

Down below

The pass


The pass

The pass

The pass

Sign at Baxter Pass


Sign at Baxter Pass

Sign at Baxter Pass


Panorama: Views from the pass


Baxter Pass from the west

Baxter Pass from the west

Baxter Pass from the west


Views from the pass


Psychedelic slopes

The ridge to the right of the pass


PSychedelic slopes

Follow the cairns downhill

Baxter Lake


Down to Baxter Lake

Down to Baxter Lake

Down to Baxter Lake

At Baxter Lake


At Baxter Lake

Follow the cairns

Down towards the John Muir Trail

Down towards the JMT


Down towards the JMT

Down towards the JMT

The trail crosses the creek

Follow the cairn


Some truly creative cairns

Some truly creative cairns

View of Dollar Lake, Arrowhead Lake, Finn Dome, the ridge to the Sixty Lakes Basin

Follow the cairns


Views to the north

Views southwest: Finn Dome (where the Rae Lakes begin - the Sixty Lake Basin is behind it)

Views to the north

Almost down at Dollar Lake


Junction with the JMT

Junction with the JMT

Junction with the JMT


Dollar Lake

Dollar Lake

Dollar Lake

Dollar Lake


Dollar Lake

The way to the Sixty Lakes


Finn Dome to the left, the way to the Sixty Lakes to the right


Looking south towards the Rae Lakes area

Arrowhead Lake

Rae Lakes area

Up the western ridge


Up the western ridge

Up the western ridge

Up the western ridge

The back of Finn Dome


Views west from the ridge


The 60 lakes

The 60 lakes

The 60 lakes

The 60 lakes


The 60 lakes

The 60 lakes

The 60 lakes

The 60 lakes


The 60 lakes


The 60 lakes

Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes


Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes


Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes


Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes


Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes


Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes


Sixty lakes

Sixty lakes

Finn Dome

Up to Sixty Lakes Pass


One last lake

One last lake

The trail to the pass

The trail to the pass


Sixty Lakes Pass

Rae Lakes

Lake at the top

At the pass


View from the Sixty Lakes Pass

View from the Sixty Lakes Pass

View from the Sixty Lakes Pass

View from the Sixty Lakes Pass


Rae Lake


Rae Lake

Rae Lake

Rae Lake

Rae Lake


Rae Lake

Rae Lake

At the Rae Lake

At the Rae Lake


At the Rae Lake


At the Finn DOme

At the Finn DOme

JMT to Dollar Lake

Arrowhead Lake


Arrowhead Lake


JMT to Dollar Lake

JMT to Dollar Lake

JMT to Dollar Lake

Video of the 60 Lakes Basin


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