Pictures of Granite Dome, Emigrant Wilderness

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Notes of this trip

Highlights


From start to end

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Kennedy Meadows trailhead

Kennedy Meadows trailhead

Map

The trail to the reservoir


One of the 3 bridges

The trail

The trail

The trail


The trail

The trail

The biggest waterfall

The biggest waterfall


The biggest waterfall

Another bridge

The trail

The trail


The trail

Horses on the trail

Waterfall

Waterfall


On the bridge

The bridge

Old equipment

Another waterfall


Waterfall

The fork to Relief Valley and Reservoir

The trail


The reservoir

The reservoir

The reservoir


The fork to Lunch Meadows

The fork to Lunch Meadows

Mountain ridge along the creek


Mountain ridge along the creek

Mountain ridge along the creek

Mountain ridge along the creek

Mountain ridge along the creek


The trail

Moon and airplane

Red berries

Red berries


Saucer Meadow, the place where one can leave the trail for Granite Dome (but safer to do it at the "beaches")

Same place

Same place

Crossing the creek

Ascending the boulders


Lewis Lake

Ascending towards Sardella Lake

Ascending towards Sardella Lake

Ascending towards Sardella Lake


Sardella Lake

The mountain of Sardella Lake

Granite Dome still far away

Fields of snow


Upper Lewis Lake

A way up

Sardella Lake

Leaving the lake


Ascending

Sardella Lake and view east

Avoiding the snow fields

Avoiding the snow fields


The plateau above the snow fields

The plateau above the snow fields

The plateau above the snow fields

Towards the real summit


View of a lake southwest

Towards the summit

Towards the summit

The many peaks of the summit


Circling around the summit block

Circling around the summit block

Views northeast


Panorama


View towards the reservoir

The reservoir and Iceberg Lake

Natural staircase to one of the peaks

The summit block


The summit block

The summit block

The real summit

The real summit


The register

View south

Crater at the top

Some minarets in the north


View southwest

View southwest

Summit peaklets

Summit peaklets


The real summit is behind this monolith

Ridge Lake, Iceberg Lake, Relief reservoir

Topomap of the lakes

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