Highlights

From start to end

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

Move to the left of this granite dome

Avoid the granite slopes

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

At the lower plateau

Waterfalls

The small plateau from above

Towards the big plateau

The small plateau from above

Above the lower plateau

Above the lower plateau

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

Close-up of the chute

The chute to Carillion Pass

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)

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

Lake Tulainyo in 2024

Lake Tulainyo in 2024

Lake Tulainyo in 2024

Lake Tulainyo in 2024

Lake Tulainyo from the Carillion pass

Mt Russell and the icy pond

Mt Carillion from the northeast

Lake Tulainyo from the Carillion pass

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

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

Tunnabora

Tunnabora

Cleaver and Carillon

The pass and Carillon

The slope to Tunnabora

The eastern shore of the lake

The pass if coming from Tunnabora

The pass if coming from Tunnabora

The Cleaver-Carillon pass

The eastern shore of the lake

The Cleaver

The sandy route

Tulainyo

Bouldering towards the top

Bouldering towards the top

Tulainyo, Cleaver, Carillon, Russell and Morgenson

Wildflowers at 4000 meters

Owens Valley

Carillon between the two passes

Owens Valley from Tunnabora

Tunnabora's summit

Summit register

Views from the top

Mt Williamson

Lake Tulainyo, the two passes, Mt Russell and Mt Morgenson (all the way to the right)

Kaweah Range

Tulainyo Lake

Mt Williamson's routes: North Bairs (right under the peaks, South Bairs, and George Creek (the reddish chute)

Kaweah Range and Great Western Divide

Mt Barnard to Williamson

Mt Russell and Whitney behind it

Mt Williamson

Mt Barnard

Tyndall?

From Barnard to Williamson

Kaweah Range

A dramatic drop

Views from the top

Views from the top

Owens Valley

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

View from the top of Mt Tunnabora