Pictures of Mt Barnard via Wales and Wallace lakes
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From start to end
(Click on the pictures to enlarge them | If you have a high-speed connection, click here for larger pictures)  Map of this hike |
Click here for the route from Whitney Portal to the Lower Boyscout Lake |  Leave the trail before Lower Boyscout 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 chimney |
 Looking back |
 The "cliff" |
 The chimney |
 The Cleaver's south subpeak |
 The tiniest glacier |
 Both |
 Looking back |
 The cliff |
 Entering the chimney |
 Entering the chimney |
 Turning left into the notch |
 Approaching the wall (another day) |
 The cut of the side-chimney clearly visible |
 Entering the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Into the chute |
 Turn left into this side-chute |
 Up the side-chute |
 Looking down the side-chute |
 At the top of the side-chute |
 The side-chute is right after the large triangular cliff |
 Looking backwards as i'm going up the plateau |
 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 |
 Looking backwards as i'm going up the plateau |
 The glacier down below |
 Lake Tulainyo from the pass |
 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) |
 Tulainyo and Barnard in the distance from the pass |
 Tulainyo from the pass |
 Panorama: Mt Russell, the unnamed lake below it, Tulainyo Lake, Tunnabora and the Cleaver from the pass |
 Morgensen, Barnard, Tunnabora |
 Panorama of Lake Tulainyo 2022 |
 Lake Tulainyo in 2022 |
 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 |
 Cleaver from the lake |
 Coasting the lake |
 Russell-Carillon pass |
 Cleaver-Carillon pass |
 Panorama with the two passes |
 From the CCP to the plateau: Passing by Carillon's scary wall |
 From the CCP to the plateau: The short cut to the plateau from the pass |
 From CCP to the plateau: Climb this hill about 30 meters |
 From CCP to the plateau: Passing by Mt Russell |
 On the way back: From the lake to the pass: Climb a straight line from tis rock to the pass |
 On the way back: From the lake to the pass: Climb a straight line from tis rock to the pass |
 On the way back: From Tulainyo to the pass |
 On the way back: From lake to pass: The pass |
 Lots of these white stones |
 Wales and Wallace lakes with Great Western Divide |
 Wales and Wallace and the Great Western Divide |
 The two chasms between Tunnabora and Barnard with an unnamed structure in the middle |
 The Great Western Divide |
 Mt Russell's north face from the north |
 Between Wales and Wallace |
 Coasting Tunnabora |
 Coasting Tunnabora |
 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 |
 Great Western Divide, the valley where the John Muir trail runs and Mt Barnard |
 Towards Wales Lake |
 Mt Barnard |
 Wallace Lake |
 Wales Lake and Wallace Lake |
 Wales Lake and the Great Western Divide |
Wallace Lake and Mt Barnard |
 Towards Wales Lake |
 Looking back |
| Looking back |
 Towards Wales Lake |
 Wallace Lake and Mt Barnard |
 Steep chutes to go down to Wallace Lake |
 Steep chutes to go down to Wallace Lake |
Towards Wales Lake |
 Towards Wales Lake |
 The wall above Wales Lake |
 Towards Wales Lake |
 Mt Hale and Wales Lake |
| Mt Hale and Wales Lake |
 Great Western Divide |
 Mt Barnard's northwest slope |
 Wales and Wallace lakes |
 Mt Barnard and unnamed neighbor |
 Wallace Lake |
 The ridge between Wales and Wallace lakes |
 Wales lake |
 The chute to Wales lake from below |
 Wales Lake |
 Wales Lake |
 Going up the chute (if you are coming back): Wales Lake from the chute |
 Going up the chute: Wales Lake from the chute |
 Going up the chute: Wales Lake from the chute |
 Going up the chute: Wales Lake from the chute |
 The chute from the lake (to the right of the staircase) |
 Wales lake |
 Wales lake |
 Wales lake: the outlet |
 Wales lake outlet |
 Wales lake outlet |
 View on the other side |
 View of the creek that flows out of Wallace lake |
 Mt Barnard's lower ridge |
 The Wallace lake basin and the route |
 Mt Russell to Mt Hale |
 Wallace lake, Mt Barnard, unnamed mountain to the right of Barnard, Vacation Pass |
 Mt Barnard to Tunnabora |
 Ascending Mt Barnard |
 Ascending Mt Barnard |
 Ascending Mt Barnard |
 Ascending Mt Barnard |
 Mt Whitney in the distance |
 Mt Russell and Morgenson |
 Russell,Morgenson, Whitney |
 Lake under Barnard |
 Lake under Barnard |
 Lake under Barnard |
 Lakes under Barnard |
 Lake under Barnard |
 Mt Russell, Whitney, etc |
 Mountains southwest |
 Kaweah group |
 Ascending |
 Ascending |
| All three lakes to Wallace lake (tunnabora in the distance) |
 Russell, Morgenson, Whitney |
 Southwest (Mt Young?) |
 Ascending |
 Russell to Hale |
 Ascending |
 Ascending |
Russell to Young |
 Ascending |
 Ascending |
 Milestone Peak to Table Mountain |
 Kaweah group |
 Great Western Divide |
 Wright Lakes |
 Wright lakes and Great Western Divide |
 Mt Tyndall |
 Ascending the ridge |
 Tyndall |
 Tyndall |
 Wright lakes and Great Western Divide |
 Palisades |
 Great Western Divide and Palisades |
 Ascending the ridge |
 Ascending the ridge |
 Ascending the ridge |
 Ascending the ridge |
 Ascending the ridge |
 Mt Whitney |
 The ridge |
 The ridge |
 Mt Barnard's citadel |
 Mt Barnard's citadel |
 Mt Barnard's citadel |
 Mt Barnard's citadel |
 Towards the summit |
 The summit |
 The summit register |
 Caltech Peak to Junction Peak |
 Mt Russell and Whitney |
 Mt Tyndall and Mt Keith |
 Trojan and Williamson (they look like one mountain) |
 Milestone, Midway, Table mountains |
 Mt Russell, Langley and Whitney |
 Looking back down |
 Wright Lakes |
 View northeast: Caltech Peak, Junction Peak, Tyndall, Williamson (click to enlarge) |
 View west: The Great Western Divide (click to enlarge) |
 View south: Russell, Langley, Whitney (click to enlarge) |
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