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| Morning in the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, CA |
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| Setting off from the Pine Creek Pack Station -- we've got about 2400 ft to climb over four and a half miles. |
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Climbing above the Pine Creek Tungsten Mine |
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| We reach Pine Lake a little before sunset. |
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| Upper Pine Lake |
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That's our target on the left... this should be, uh... interesting. |
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| Looking back down from whence we came... |
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A panorama from about 11,600 ft taking in Feather Peak on the left at about 13,000', a few unnamed peaks, Italy Pass, and Mt. Julius Caesar in the middle right. (This is about a 90 degree sweep.) |
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| Starting to get into some serious boulder negotiation... |
We're going up where? |
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| Clearly a 45 degree slope and climbing... |
Yowza -- the view from about 12,000 or so feet. Okay, how do we get down from here? |
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Just came down all that. |
We were up there! |
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| Honeymoon Lake |
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| (QuickTime movie - wait for 9.4 MB download) |
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