Leavitt Lake first evening. It was very windy. Gusts over 25mph for certain. Pic by Eric Hauck
Eric ready to hit the trail from Leavitt Lake trailhead. This used to be the road to the Montezuma Mine near Snow Lake. I have no idea how any truck made the…
Eric ready to hit the trail from Leavitt Lake trailhead. This used to be the road to the Montezuma Mine near Snow Lake. I have no idea how any truck made the…
It's a pretty raggedy trail up and over Leavitt Peak. The volcanics in the area break into angular chunks.
Leavitt Lake from after five minutes up the trail.
The feeder dikes in the cirque were awesomely obvious cutting across the many layers of volcanic flows of the Relief Peak formation.
It's a ways up to Leavitt Peak. 900ft in just over a mile.
The remnants of a very bad, terrible, horrible snow year.
Eric provided a continuos sense of scale.
Halfway up to Leavitt Peak.
Dead trees and wildflowers abound above the tree line.
Eric approaches the crest of Leavitt Peak.
Snow way! This was all that remained at 10,600' in mid June. In good snow years there should still be multiple feet of snow at this location.
What better way to catch your breath than to soak-in the panoramas.
I'm always amazed by the variety of wildflowers and plants that grow in such rocky soil at such high elevations.
Approaching the last gates installed on the road in the late 1960's after the Wilderness Area was declared. Looking SE into Yosemite.
We briefly crossed through the Hoover Wilderness.
One of my favorite views of the the entire hike. This is where a small section of the PCT intersects with our journey. I love the smooth, velvet-like appearance…
PCT in the center. Our trail carries on to the left across the saddle at Kennedy Canyon and then follows the road cut up to Big Sam, which is dead-center in…
Zoom in to find the PCT hiker for scale.
