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Create your own maps with custom routes, waypoints, and layers. Then share with your friends to kick off your adventure planning.
Create your own maps with custom routes, waypoints, and layers. Then share with your friends to kick off your adventure planning.
Heavy bushwhacking
Class 3, technically more difficult than Frozen Lake Pass
Easier than Snow Tongue Pass, well traveled
Requires extra elevation, traverses loose slate, holds snow/ice until September.
Begin from north end of Minaret Lake, excellent bird's eyes views, easy scramble
Peak bagging
Excellent views of Tuolumne Meadows peaks. Class 2 from the pass.
Adventurous, avoids trail, Lyell Fk Mdw is gorgeous, steep, north facing gullies only safe in late season when free of snow
Rounded bump. Excellent views of Ritter Range and canyon of North Fork.
Extra 1,000 ft loss/gain
Just a few hours from Lake Italy outlet
Peak bagging
Class 2 talus, 500 ft gain, unique views of glacially carved valleys of N Yosemite
10 min walk, view to Half Dome
Lower than Keyhole
Starts late June on average snow year
View of Mammoth Lakes region and Ritter Range
Class 3, maybe an ice ax, head SW from the bleak tarn up to the glacier and up
12,590 ft
