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 |