TR: Forgotten Pass And Maybe "Forgotten Peak", Feb 8th, 2015
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 10:39 am
With such a mysterious and intriguing name as Forgotten Pass, I knew I would have to explore this area of the Inyos eventually. Finally got there back on Feb 8th of this year. Quite an amazing day with some weather moving through. Clouds were racing up and down the mountain all day, alternating between partly cloudy and almost white out, leaving me getting rained (and/or sleeted) on occasionally, but just enough to be invigorating and not so much as to be unpleasant at all.
I tried for the peak to the South of Forgotten Pass, which I have been calling "Forgotten Peak", although it has no official name as far as I know. Unfortunately, once I got up there I realized it had three summits. Anyone know which is the highest? The two Northern ones look like they are within a contour line of each other and the Southern one appears to be lower than the other two. The weather was looking nastier, I was spent as far as energy goes and I also found a huge cairn on the Northern summit so I was satisfied enough with that one, but it would be interesting to know which really is the highest.
Staring out with rainbows and a pretty sunrise on the drive in to the trailhead
Some times the cloud cover got thick, but I still had plenty of great views to enjoy at times:
The views up by the Pass itself were slim due to cloud cover, and especially so on Forgotten peak, but I managed to get a few photos:
Very nice day in the Inyos.
I tried for the peak to the South of Forgotten Pass, which I have been calling "Forgotten Peak", although it has no official name as far as I know. Unfortunately, once I got up there I realized it had three summits. Anyone know which is the highest? The two Northern ones look like they are within a contour line of each other and the Southern one appears to be lower than the other two. The weather was looking nastier, I was spent as far as energy goes and I also found a huge cairn on the Northern summit so I was satisfied enough with that one, but it would be interesting to know which really is the highest.
Staring out with rainbows and a pretty sunrise on the drive in to the trailhead
Some times the cloud cover got thick, but I still had plenty of great views to enjoy at times:
The views up by the Pass itself were slim due to cloud cover, and especially so on Forgotten peak, but I managed to get a few photos:
Very nice day in the Inyos.