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Tuesday, August 17, 1999

Windy Ridge-Gray Pass-White Pass-Red Pass-Marion Lake-Lake Basin


Morning View of LeConte Canyon
Yet another view of LeConte Canyon from Windy Ridge
The Palisades from atop Gray Pass
Upper Cartridge Creek Basin, just below Gray Pass

Marion Peak, as seen from the lakes between Gray and White Passes 
(Upper Cartridge Creek Basin)
Near the top of White Pass

Looking back into Cartridge Creek Basin from White Pass
Upper Cartridge Creek Basin

Plaque at Marion Lake, honoring the woman for whom it's named 
(Helen Marion Gompertz LeConte, wife of Joseph LeConte)
Looking at the north shore of Marion Lake
A closer look at the chutes descending into Marion Lake: I should
have come down the grassy one on the right; instead, I went down the 
much steeper, rocky one on the left edge of the picture.
In the expanses of the Lake Basin
Another view in the Lake Basin

Self-portrait near Sunset, in the Lake Basin

A view of Vennacher Needle (hidden to its right is Vennacher Col,
my way out of the Lake Basin)

Moonrise over Lake Basin (looking east)

Sunset over the Lake Basin
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