I have done Milly's a number of times, twice with packs. Milly's is a long class 2 boulder hop up until you reach the last approximately 150' class 3 chimney. The class 3 chimney part consists of pretty solid climbing that is made more difficult when carrying a pack. I did it one time as a day hike on a heavy snow year and the chimney was pretty scary because it was full of hard, steep snow. I never really was that uncomfortable with a pack but, I was constantly aware that a fall would not be good. I would not ever plan to go down that chimney with a pack but, it would not be impossible to do. I would steer clear of Milly's if it was a heavy snow year or you were going early in the summer. The last time that we went up Milly's we used Lucy's to get back to the East lake area. I would have no problem doing Lucy's to get into the Upper Kern but, if you carry a heavy pack the last steep part could be a little rough but not impossible. Both Lucy's and Milly's are fairly easy on the Upper Kern side. I have no experience with Harrison's or Ericson's but have them on my to do list.
I have done quite a number of cross-country passes including King Col and the one described in R.J. Secor's books as Not Pants Pass and would consider those two as scarier than Milly's or Lucy's.
Reflection Lake to Upper Kern- which pass?
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Re: Reflection Lake to Upper Kern- which pass?
I think a lot of the issues discussed so far are also discussed at:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6497&p=94011&hilit=milly#p94011
The links to my trip reports on the above thread don't work, so here they are:
http://www.sierrahiker.com/KernBasinI/index.html
http://www.sierrahiker.com/KernBasinII/index.html
http://www.sierrahiker.com/ThunderCol/index.html
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6497&p=94011&hilit=milly#p94011
The links to my trip reports on the above thread don't work, so here they are:
http://www.sierrahiker.com/KernBasinI/index.html
http://www.sierrahiker.com/KernBasinII/index.html
http://www.sierrahiker.com/ThunderCol/index.html
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