After a winter and spring season of too much business travel and not enough outdoor time, I've finally been able to sit down and figure out some summer adventures. Thankful for a lot of accumulated vacation time and comp time from sitting on 11 hour plane rides. A couple of Yosemite-area options are on the table for shorter outings but my longer trips will be a bit south. And pushed back into late august due to this season's snow.
9 days out over Taboose and into Lakes Basin/Dumbbell Lakes. Climb Observation and Shakspear (who decided on the spelling of that one anyways?). Loop back either through Upper Basin (depending on Frozen Lake Pass conditions) and bag Split or down to Bench Lake and do Arrow.
10+ days along 395 - combination of backpacks/peak bagging and bouldering. Hope to start off with a few days in out of Convict Lake to do Baldwin and Morrison, then a few days around Bishop to climb and fish, noodle around the dayhikable peaks, then down to Shepherd Creek for a multi day outing to climb Tyndall and Williamson (bighorn restrictions have been lifted this year - year round access! woo!).
In the weekends leading up to those trips I'll probably head out to my favorite area, Tioga Pass, to get to altitude and stretch my peak bagging legs. I still want to do Parsons Peak (look ma! I'm in three counties at once!) and I still have plans to squeeze in a trip at some point to get in towards Koip Pass and do the cluster of peaks: Lewis, Kuna, Koip, Parker, Wood.
So many peaks, so little snow-free-open-Tioga-Pass time.
What plans does everyone else have? I love poking through threads requesting advice on trips or trip reports to get ideas for my future outings.