High Sierra Topix

Another photo to help:

Below is a link to several photos I took going up Winter Pass. Without using the attachment feature, I can't figure out how to make my images show up individually with the proper width (the rimg doesn't seem to work for me with Flikr or Picasa). That said, if you click on the image below it will take you to a Winter Pass album.

Winter Pass: The route I took.

More route info:

http://davidstillman.blogspot.com/2010/ ... t.html?m=1

Also, it might be possible to get there from Lake #6 (only one through five are labelled on the topo). There's a "pass" to the NE of Lake #6. I was above it whilst on top of peak 12,640, which is just east of said "pass." That peak is west of the Whooley Back (the only peak in the region that's round on top). Peak 12,640 has an xNNNN marker on the metric topo. To descend from there to the "pass" is a technical class 5 down climb. But, Lake #6, due NE to the "pass" then to Langley looked pretty straightforward from 12,640 feet. *

That peak is "x3878" and the views are great in all directions (!). It has a 1,000 feet nearly vertical wall on the NE side, facing Diaz Creek. Getting up was easy. Getting down, back to the Cottonwood basin, was a lot harder, requiring A LOT of route finding over or around ledges and boulders. (JES)

Attempted it one year in June and it was the coldest,windiest day I have ever had. Was climbing in a fleece jacket a with rain gear over that for wind break. We got turned back by a pretty intimidating cornice at the top. Went back about 6 weeks later and the cornice was gone and the pass was a snap. Pretty much talus boulder hopping to the top....