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#195387 - 05/17/16 09:56 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: OregonMouse]
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Originally Posted By OregonMouse
Looks like the Neversummer Range in Colorado!


Correct state, but in a different range.

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#195439 - 05/23/16 11:02 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: ndsol]
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Sorry--but you are out of my range!

We need somebody with CO experience here to chime in!
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#195441 - 05/24/16 08:13 AM Re: Name this spot! [Re: balzaccom]
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Appropriately, it was named for one of our tallest.

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#195442 - 05/24/16 08:27 AM Re: Name this spot! [Re: ndsol]
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Mt. Lincoln.
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#195443 - 05/24/16 08:35 AM Re: Name this spot! [Re: bluefish]
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Bluefish has it correct and is up to bat.

Here is a photo from the top of Mt. Lincoln looking back at Mt. Democrat:


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#195444 - 05/24/16 09:40 AM Re: Name this spot! [Re: ndsol]
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This is one of the best beginner's backpacks I know. It also leads to the exploration of some neat mines and access to climbing , fishing, and some less traveled passes.
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#195446 - 05/24/16 02:07 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: bluefish]
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Cool! I can hardly wait to find out where it is! I assume Colorado?
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#195447 - 05/24/16 03:18 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: balzaccom]
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No! We're back in the Sierra. This spot sees a lot of traffic for very good reason, but, off-season it is spectacular. Hint: It's one of the highest trailheads.
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#195449 - 05/24/16 05:13 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: bluefish]
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Treasure Lakes, looking west? The internets offered up this, which seems ballparkish (not my pic).



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#195450 - 05/24/16 06:04 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: Rick_D]
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Rick, my pic was taken about 2 1/2 miles east, and a little lower in elevation. You have to go a little up a pass and west to drop into the Treasures. I was looking for the name of the valley, not the peaks or lake. Keep going up the scree and over the ridge from where that pic was taken and you drop into one of my favorite fishing spots. Obviously you know the name of the valley and the trailhead, I'll give you Heart Lake. Tell the folks where we are and take the reins. My next trip to the Sierra will be out of there and up Pine Creek to Granite Park. goodjob


Edited by bluefish (05/24/16 06:14 PM)
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#195451 - 05/24/16 07:53 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: bluefish]
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Boy, I feel like a lowly scavenger, picking away at the carcass after others have done all the work.Are we talking about Little Lakes Valley, Mosquito Flat trailhead? Actually, I've used that trailhead for Mono Pass: it's nice using a 10,400' trailhead to get a headstart on a 12000' pass smile
I love Granite Park: are you getting there via the pass at the head of Little Lakes (never been there), or via Second Recess (have been there) and down to Lake Italy?. I gather you could do a loop via those to routes, but I've only been to Granite Park from Pine Creek Trailhead (definitely NOT one of the higher trailheads around!)
I will also add that I have a tremendous fondness for the Second Mono Recess: spent some delightful days of solitude there, just me and my dog.


Edited by bobito9 (05/24/16 07:55 PM)

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#195452 - 05/24/16 08:20 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: bobito9]
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Bobito, I lived at the bottom of Sherwin Grade at one time, so LLV was my back yard, so to speak. I love it dearly, as does my wife; we'll go in over Morgan Pass and cross over past the tungsten mines. Glad you've been there, and you hit the nail on the head with the headstart that trailhead provides. Now, lets head out with Rick....
Edit: Though Rick didn't name the specific vague place I took the pic from, he did get that it was Morgan, Bear Creek Spire, Julius Ceasar, Abbot and Gabb. Plenty close enough. Bobito will get a turn, without a doubt.


Edited by bluefish (05/25/16 07:21 AM)
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#195465 - 05/25/16 03:13 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: bluefish]
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Woot, got one! grin

Will post the next challenge when I'm back at my computer. Watch this space.
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#195482 - 05/26/16 02:01 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: balzaccom]
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Lunch with a view. What peak is the sandwich contemplating?



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#195494 - 05/26/16 05:49 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: Rick_D]
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Love the picture, but if, as I suspect, it's in California, I haven't a clue. I've never backpacked in the Sierra. It might be Wyoming's Wind Rivers (very similar mountains) but, if so, not a place with which I'm famliar.

Can we have some Pacific NW shots? Then at least I can feel bad if I don't recognize them!
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#195503 - 05/26/16 08:11 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: OregonMouse]
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Here you go OM.



This is a real "oldie".

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#195504 - 05/26/16 08:26 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: Rick_D]
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Rick,

Are we back in the Sierras again?

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#195505 - 05/26/16 11:51 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: wandering_daisy]
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W_D, I sure don't recognize it with all the snow and cloud! Might be Mt. Baring? Certainly has the look of the North Cascades, peaky granite stuff, quite different from our volcanic peaks in Oregon and southern Washington! Awesome picture!

Back to Rick's peak--I haven't a clue, but is the sandwich toasted ham and cheese?



Edited by OregonMouse (05/26/16 11:59 PM)
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#195508 - 05/27/16 10:47 AM Re: Name this spot! [Re: OregonMouse]
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It is Early Winters Spires along the North Cascade Highway, BEFORE the road was finished! I was at UW in Seattle (1968-9) and we decided to ski up the unfinished road bed in the winter. I had climbed Early Winter Spires a few years previous, with a long approach, well before the road was built. It was amazing to us that this rock, that was so hard to reach, now would be so accessible. As rock climbers we liked this; but still mourned the loss of "wilderness".

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#195511 - 05/27/16 01:09 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: ndsol]
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Yes, it's in the Sierra and to possibly narrow things down here's a very distant view, in the background of the ibis shot.



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#195516 - 05/27/16 01:40 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: balzaccom]
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For the sake of a bit more fairness, since this forum includes areas throughout the country, if you identify the photo then try to put up a photo of a different area/mountain range/state. Otherwise, I can see this devolving into an ever narrowing puzzle only solvable for those who happen to backpack in a single range.

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#195520 - 05/27/16 03:16 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: wandering_daisy]
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Early Winters was my alternate choice (actually thinking Liberty Bell) but I changed my mind. It's a gorgeous photo!


Edited by OregonMouse (05/27/16 03:18 PM)
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#195555 - 05/29/16 08:19 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: Rick_D]
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well, I'll take my chance on being a dummy: How about Mt Ritter, though not an angle I'm familiar with, and Banner not looking very Banner-like...in other words, why the heck did I guess that? smile

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#195561 - 05/29/16 10:25 PM Re: Name this spot! [Re: bobito9]
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A bold guess but this peak isn't quite in Ritter's league, lacking the vertical reach, although it's still the tallest of its group. Travel north to vistas of North America's noblest alpine lake to find our entrant. Strawman only wanted a brain and our destination pines (heh) only for a scant sixteen feet.

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#195562 - 05/30/16 12:01 AM Re: Name this spot! [Re: Rick_D]
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well, it does look like a Pyramid, so that eliminates Isoceles Peak, Half Dome, and Square Butte...How about Pyramid Peak, the one in Desolation Wilderness? I've even camped in eyesight of it, though I don't have it committed to memory

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