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That's Charlotte Dome, taken from the JMT heading into the bowl below Glen Pass
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That's somewhere below Glen Pass, but just where is anyone's guess. Anyway, the prior weekend, when I arrived at Horseshoe Meadow in the morning, it was 60. Last Saturday, it was 30 when I got to Onion Valley, and got progressively colder as I hiked up to Kearsarge Pass. It was the first time I can remember my mustache freezing since I attended college in New Jersey!
This is the Glen Pass bowl the next morning:
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I was hoping to make it over Glen Pass the first day, but I ran into a group that just came south over it, and they were claiming there was 2 feet of snow at the top and, anyway, I wouldn't have been able to make it down to Rae Lakes before dark. It was really slow going hiking over granite steps covered with snow (as I always say, there's nothing more dangerous than a trail). Then, the next morning I decided I still didn't need to deal with snow -- I'd just turn around and head the other direction on the JMT. I thought about going into Center Basin, but instead headed up towards Forester Pass.
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That's Junction Peak in the center.
There were two large snow fields just before Forester Pass, and then I decided I didn't need to go through those either (the pass is at the center of the photo):
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There were some rather Arctic looking scenes below the pass:
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So I came back down to about 11,200 and camped near the pond on the large flat area at the top of tree line. A strange fog came through at sunset, that made me think I was still in L.A. (near the beach):
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On the 3d and last day, I detoured around the Kearsarge Lakes, which really are quite lovely when no one is there. This is the lake above the 3 main Kearsarge Lakes, with University Peak in the background:
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The Kearsarge Pinnacles:
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And, finally, East Vidette, taken from Bullfrog Lake, and then a wider panorama from the a slightly different vantage point:
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