High Sierra Topix

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Negit Lake

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Council Lake

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Aweetasol Lake

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Gemini Peak

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Council Lake outlet

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Big Moccasin Lake looking east from ridge to the west

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Camp at Big Moccasin Lake, looking west

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Little Moccasin Lake from Big Moccasin Lake

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Little Moccasin Lake

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E. Pinnacle Creek below Little Moccasin Lake

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French Canyon viewed from traverse between W and E Pinnacle Creeks

My route direction was opposite of the way you guys are going. Frankly I would rather go down to French Canyon from Moccasin Lakes than the other way. I believe the pass between Three Island Lake and Squaw Lake is called Flat Note Pass. There are a lot of slabs and some tricky route finding dropping off the top to the head of Senger Creek. I stayed on the north edge simply because I wanted to take photos - not that it is the best route. Flat Note Lake is super talus - not really worth the effort. On the photos when I said "Lower Turret Lake" I meant the lower of the Upper Turret Lakes. I did not go down the drainage. The lower lakes (Big Chief, Spearpoint, Big Moccasin and Little Moccasin) are the prettier lakes. I really liked Spearpoint - saw fish in it. Meoldy Lakes are also really nice. I traversed from East Fork Bear Creek to Lou Beverly Lake - some steep side-hills - more cliffs than shown on map. Traversing from West to East Pinnacle Creek, the joint system aims towards French Canyon so I had to keep "going uphill" to get on the next upper bench.

Hope you have a good trip!

The route from Three Island Lake to West Pinnacle Creek is described in Secor's High Sierra climbing guide, pg 305 in the second edition, under "cross country routes" Peak 11,840. Class 2.

Daisy

Thank you so much for taking the time to repost those photos. Very helpful. We could reverse the direction of the trip but our primary target fishing lakes are in the first half of the trip. So if we have a spell of bad weather and have to make adjustments I don't want to miss out on fishing those lakes.

Mike

Beautiful photos! Thanks for taking the time to repost those.

I'm not seeing the photos- are they so top secret that they are only up for a day or two? Sheesh.

I did not know how to add photos to the original, so I just made another post of photos only. Post is titled East and West Pinnacle Creek.

Oops! Not a new post, rather just as replies to the original.

Wandering Daisy wrote:I did not know how to add photos to the original, so I just made another post of photos only. Post is titled East and West Pinnacle Creek.

It looks like the updated post is no longer showing the images. Photobucket just changed their terms of service to not allow image links unless you upgrade to their $40/month service:

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