Big Boulder Lakes, Boulder Chain Lakes loop, September 6, 2018
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DSCF0445.JPG4 viewsPerennial snow field southwest end of and tarn east of Cove Lake, Big Boulder Lakes. This begins the cross-country route to Boulder Chain Lakes, the next basin to the south.
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DSCF0446.JPG3 views
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DSCF0448.JPG3 viewsThe saddle separating the two lake basins comes into view.
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DSCF0449.JPG3 viewsGetting to this point from Cove Lake avoided elevation loss, but involved too much boulder hopping. It would have been easier to descend to Island Lake (just left of center), and ascend more open ridges that led to this point.
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DSCF0450.JPG3 viewsView to the north, toward Cove Lake.
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DSCF0454.JPG5 viewsThe view north from the low saddle between Peak 11072, the smaller, unnamed peak west of Peak 10,881. The tarn is visible to the right. This, I soon realized, was not the correct saddle to descend to Hummock lake.
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DSCF0456.JPG6 viewsThis low point, to the southwest, I soon realized, was not the correct saddle to descend to Hummock lake.
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DSCF0459.JPG4 viewsThe correct "saddle" is really the notch further up the ridge to the east, which continues to Peak 10,881 (on the left).
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DSCF0460.JPG4 viewsThe view north from the low saddle at the top of the steep snow field (I avoided) which drops all the way to the tarn below.
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DSCF0461.JPG4 viewsPeak 11072 (right) as seen from the low saddle. D. O. Lee Peak is seen behind the jagged west ridge (skyline) of Peak 11072.
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DSCF0462.JPG4 viewsThe view west from the low saddle; looking down the drainage west of Hidden and Hummock Lakes. This drainage empties into Warm Springs Creek, running 90 degrees to it, in front of the dark range of mountains in the upper third of the photo. Note the dark towers on the ridge (left foreground) leading down into the canyon.
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DSCF0464.JPG4 viewsCloser on D. O. Lee Peak, behind the jagged west ridge of Peak 11072.
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