High Sierra Topix

This area in The Blackcap Basin felt very remote. This is looking south from Regiment lake toward Finger Peak/Pass in the distant right. I like the smooth granite, and solitude this area provides. August 2012

The Green Trinities (New River area) is very seldom used. Trails aren't maintained anymore and fires have burned most of it in the past 10 years. You can spend a week up their without seeing a sole. No lakes, blazing heat in the summer and streams you can't ford in the spring. Fall is the best time. What you will see are beautiful rugged canyons, huge trees, bear and remnants of the gold mining era

vandman wrote:This area in The Blackcap Basin felt very remote. This is looking south from Regiment lake toward Finger Peak/Pass in the distant right. I like the smooth granite, and solitude this area provides. August 2012

The same foreground ridge from opposite side a month later. There is a use trail next to Pearl Lake. The area on the other side of White Divide and towards Ionian Basin feels much more remote - no trails, lakes don't even have names, and in contrast to west side of the divide, I didn't even see any sign of fish in them.

This small lake between The Ionian Basin and Goddard Creek is way out there and spooky remote. That's Reinstein on the left. The creek that flows from this outlet feeds the waterfalls above Lake 10,232 in Goddard Creek basin. August 2012