As others wrote, it is North Lake. It is looking west up Paiute Creek. The trail goes up that creek past Loch Leven over Piute Pass into Humphries Basin. The photo shows the horizontal contact on the slope in the background between the Lamark granodiorite on the bottom and the Tungsten Hills quartz monzonite on the top with a thin band of diorite or hornblende gabbro between them. This is allby mdiggles - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Yup, and Piute Pass is up the trail to the west from there; that pass is about 11,500'. And Mount Humphries is to the north a short distance and it is just under 14,000'. So "High" fits just fine.by mdiggles - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
It looks like there is a little bit of the lake showing in the foreground. That lake, like most Sierran lakes, is becoming a meadow. I first went there for a hike over Piute Pass in 1965 and several times since. The lake has more and more sand in it. My last trip there was in 1999 so it's time to go back.by mdiggles - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion