 01 - The flat roads of the Bay Area start every successful endeavor. |
 02 - Soon they yield their way to the rolling hills of the east. |
 03 - Don Pedro Resevoir. the terminus of some fine Class IV whitewater rafting adventures. |
 04 - This gives you an idea what it's like to drive through Yosemite with me. |
 05 - Clouds obscure the start of the snowcapped mountains. |
 06 - Yosemite slabs that I could climb! |
 07 - Some snow along the "just opened yesterday" road. Seems excessive! |
 08 - The "Olmstead Point Avalanche Zone". Yeah, right. |
 09 - Half Dome, been there, done that. |
 10 - Cloud's Rest. Ditto. |
 11 - First view of my objective for the next day. |
 12 - What it's like to drive through Tuolumne Meadows with me. |
 13 - I wake up from my car camp. I give my car a 2/10 rating for "sleeping in" comfort. |
 14 - The mountainside in the dark when I'm "just about to leave". |
 15 - My god, I'm such a procrastinator. |
 16 - This is actually the false summit. Of course. |
 17 - View of Tioga Lake from the start of suncupland. |
 18 - Suncups, I would grow to hate these. Quickly. |
 19 - False summit behind suncups and brushes. |
 20 - Some nameless peak on the far side of the valley. Looks cool! |
 21 - North across the road. |
 22 - Looking north is the "Conness Massif", well, Coness is back there somewhere. |
 23 - Maybe this is Conness? Who knows. I can't identify these crummy mountains unless I'm on top of them. |
 24 - Or on some crazy slope going to the top. |
 25 - Brush and suncups, my life sucked about now. Like 0.6 mph sucked. |
 26 - North view again. The highest points come into the sun. |
 27 - South is snow. Look at the fun of this uneven snow. Imagine how it'd be falling into those little holes every 6 incehs you moved. |
 28 - Could have ascended here to the NW Ridge route. |
 29 - I remember thinking the snow wasn't very steep at all. No ice axe used for this traverse. |
 30 - I decided to get on rocks to avoid the horrible snow. Class 3 climbing up this thing and across some ledges. |
 31 - So much for the early start, now the sun was really up. |
 32 - First summit view. The distant point with the snow chutes in the middle of the picture. |
 33 - Traversing around on rock looking for the Dana Couloir. |
 34 - A frozen lake Brian had told me not to fall in. I wasn't anywhere near it. |
 35 - The summit. I didn't go up any of these routes to it. |
 36 - I figured this rock pile would be more "fun". |
 37 - Views back into the canyon from the base of the summit rock. |
 38 - Finally, first view of the Dana Couloir. |
 39 - Lake at the base of the couloir, this is what you slide into if you fall. |
 40 - A bit closer view of the couloir. |
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