High Sierra Topix

SSSdave wrote: Tom, sounds like someone gave you some bum route directions. You were supposed to put on your headlamp and follow that stream down through the snow tunnel.

Don't think I didn't consider it...

Great TR and pictures Tom to a lake not frequently visited.
The Crazy Mule, and the Big Meadow down to Dog, Tallulah Lake areas are
really nice to.
Still planning to visit those pretty lakes at the mouth of Thompson, or was this
a shortened trip ?

maverick wrote:Great TR and pictures Tom to a lake not frequently visited.
The Crazy Mule, and the Big Meadow down to Dog, Tallulah Lake areas are
really nice to.
Still planning to visit those pretty lakes at the mouth of Thompson, or was this
a shortened trip ?

Thanks!

I shortened the trip to just 4 days (bummed around Yosemite and the eastern Sierra for the rest of the week). Have to hit those Thompson Canyon lakes another time...

Great trip report! And I couldn't agree more about the idiocy of how the trails were constructed in the whole Benson Loop area. You're lucky you were off-trail for most of it!

Here are some of the flowers I saw along the way:


Mountain Mint (Monardella odoratissima)


Rock Fringe (Epilobium obcordatum)


Tolmies Saxifrage (Saxifraga tolmiei)


White Heather (Cassiope mertensiana)


Elephant Heads (Pedicularis groenlandica)


Lemmons Paintbrush (Castilleja lemmonii)


Corn Lilies (Veratrum californicum)


Pinedrops (Pterospora andromedea)


Oregon Sidalcea (Sidalcea oregana ssp. spicata)


And a mixed bouquet of lupine, paintbrush, and some yellow Asteraceae type deal.

Very nice, I like the Oregon Sidalcea.
The flower garden mix looks just like the ones on High Trail out of Agnew.