Re: North Peak and Excelsior Mountain Photos

Got a chance to do two dayhikes this weekend. Here are some photos. Apologies for the poor quality; they were taken with a phone camera.

Mount Dana above Saddlebag Lake


Mount Conness North Ridge. Check out the distant (and blurry) Half Dome.


The route up North Peak. Saddlebag, Greenstone, and Conness Lakes


Lundy Canyon and Mono Lake from the summit of Excelsior


High Peaks from the summit of Excelsior (Banner, Ritter, Rodgers, Lyell, Maclure on the horizon)


The route up Excelsior Mountain. Dunderberg Peak is prominent.

You summited North Peak? Is that technical route?

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You summited North Peak? Is that technical route?

Not the route I took. From upper Conness Lake it's just a slog up a scree slope to gain the ridge. From the ridge it's a walk up.

Ha...I looked back at my photos from a couple of months ago looking for the snow that is in your lakes photo. Not snow!!! Shiny sunlit lakes.

Haha yep that's what happens with a bad camera and a very sunny day.

When you were doing Excelsior did you happen to see any boundary markers?
There was a large cairn on a saddle between there and Sky Pilot Col.
I got all excited but it was just a cairn.
A really nice dayhike imo would be up North then down and thru Don't Be a Smart Pass to
Upper McCabe and then back up Secret Pass to Shepherd Crest (seems not many
go up there) and then back down and back to Saddlebag lake.
(it's < 10 miles... even less if you take the shuttle boat)

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/2012 07:32AM by chick-on.

Nope, I didn't run across any boundary markers on Excelsior, but I didn't spend much time poking around up there.

The back side of North towards Upper McCabe looked nice. I'll have to find some time to go back and play in that area.