High Sierra Topix

Descending Granite Dome, looking east-southeast:

Desolation Lake:

vandman wrote:

red rock72.jpg

Weird red metamorphic rock on the shelf between Goddard creek area and Ionian Basin. This is part of a crimson seam that runs vertically up the wall of the shelf. This area is a jumbled, twisted geological wonderland. August 2012.

i saw some pink veins in that region.... wonder how close my patch was to your patch?

And here is a duck made of those same pink rocks...in the vicinity of Lake 12220+

Oh, and here's my recent addition to the Lake 11818 portfolio. Taken about 3 weeks ago.

Shout out to lostcoyote, it was a pleasure meeting you down below Lake Martha. Hope your friend with the bum ankle made it out OK.

Oops, I meant to caption those as Western Ionian...

ironmike wrote:Oops, I meant to caption those as Western Ionian...

you mean like this:


lake 11951 in western ionian basin (from its north end)

did you get any pictures of lake ~12260 west-northwest of lake 11951 which is right at the SW base of goddard

p.s. mike, nice meeting you at martha - who was your shirtless leader again?


lake 11951 in western ionian basin (from its south end)

did you get any pictures of lake ~12260 west-northwest of lake 11951 which is right at the SW base of goddard

This lake has a register.

that's the one.
it's been awhile since i last drank from that one.
30 some years ago, we named it hash pipe lake cuz of its shape - LOL - not cuz of we were doing there.
a register? LOL


standing atop unnamed pass west of mt. clarence king

Yes. There is only one campsite and I do mean only one! There was a small pile of rocks tied with a rope so wondering what the deal was I picked it up to find a small bottle lake register.

I also drank from that lake. The Red Copeopods and the water fleas where so thick on every single inch of shore line that it was completely impossible to get a clean bottle of water. I even tried to run water through my shirt but it did not work. I just gave up and drank the fleas.