High Sierra Topix

8/8 - 8/16. Went up the Copper Creek trail, over Granite Pass, then spent the next 6 days going from one off-trail lake basin to another. Gorgeous lakes, awesome views, great weather--a fantastic trip.

Got a much longer trip report (in progress) with pictures on my blog.
Part 1: http://tehipitetom.blogspot.com/2006/08 ... art-1.html
Part 2: http://tehipitetom.blogspot.com/2006/08 ... art-2.html
One or two more segments still to come...

Thank you for the pics, motivates me to want to go just a bit further south in my quest to visit more terrain I haven't visited. Yet!

hikerduane wrote:Thank you for the pics, motivates me to want to go just a bit further south in my quest to visit more terrain I haven't visited. Yet!

Glad you enjoyed them...and there's more to come!

Part 3 is posted: http://tehipitetom.blogspot.com/2006/08 ... art-3.html.

Ah! Nice. That first pic in your third set is nice, love the Shooting stars in the creek. Those xc trips can be disheartning quite a bit of the time. Luckily on my last trip things were pretty much cut and dried, just one "I don't remember this" and one oh-oh. On my trip a few weeks ago, one stretch I saw no one for a day and a half and the next day was the start of a stretch where I saw no one for 2 days and I was only a few hours off the JMT. Once back on the JM Highway, I saw 20 people within a few hours. One of these years I am going to have to do it to see what all the fuss is about. Thank you.

Sweet photos and a nice trip that is more creative than that of many who go to that neck of the woods (who tend to use Copper Creek as a way to get to the SHR). Volcanic Lakes and the Kid Creek drainage have long been high on my to do list. They look as nice as I imagined them.

hikerduane wrote:Ah! Nice. That first pic in your third set is nice, love the Shooting stars in the creek. Those xc trips can be disheartning quite a bit of the time. Luckily on my last trip things were pretty much cut and dried, just one "I don't remember this" and one oh-oh. On my trip a few weeks ago, one stretch I saw no one for a day and a half and the next day was the start of a stretch where I saw no one for 2 days and I was only a few hours off the JMT. Once back on the JM Highway, I saw 20 people within a few hours. One of these years I am going to have to do it to see what all the fuss is about. Thank you.

Thanks, Duane! (By the way, here's another pic from the same location, with very different light: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomhilton/ ... 247569788/.) I love the challenge of routefinding, and this trip went pretty well on that score--a few frustrating moments, but mostly the route just fell into place.

giantbrookie wrote:Sweet photos and a nice trip that is more creative than that of many who go to that neck of the woods (who tend to use Copper Creek as a way to get to the SHR). Volcanic Lakes and the Kid Creek drainage have long been high on my to do list. They look as nice as I imagined them.

Thanks, GB. I have an aversion to following the same route as anybody else...I know it means I miss a lot of cool places, but it also gets me into some amazing country, and when it does I feel like it's my own discovery.

I keep getting "Internal Server Error" on all 3 links. I'll try later.

Part 4 is posted: http://tehipitetom.blogspot.com/2006/08 ... art-4.html

I keep getting "Internal Server Error" on all 3 links. I'll try later.

Hmmm...could be Blogger was down for a while (it's been a little unreliable this morning). Or if you're at work, it could be a firewall problem. I dunno.

If you still can't get there, pictures (without report) are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomhilton/ ... 247569788/