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Most viewed - Big Boulder Lakes, Boulder Chain Lakes loop, September 6, 2018
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 DSCF0346.JPG5 viewsMeadows above Big Boulder Creek. Castle Peak juts skyward south of the Boulder Chain Lakes.
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 DSCF0355.JPG5 viewsReflection; inlet stream, Island Lake, Big Boulder Lakes.
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 DSCF0392.JPG5 viewsDusk, Peak 11272 to the south, above my camp at the inlet of Cove Lake.
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 DSCF0399.JPG5 viewsDawn; D.O. Lee Peak, and WCP-9 (right) from the inlet of Cove Lake.
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 DSCF0408.JPG5 viewsPerennial snow fields and tarn east of Cirque Lake, below the saddle.
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 DSCF0413.JPG5 viewsThe view east of Big Boulder Lakes from the 13,342' summit of D. O. Lee Peak.
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 DSCF0416.JPG5 viewsThe view northwest into Bighorn Basin from the summit of D. O. Lee Peak. Peak 10,7777 rises north of Bighorn Basin in the upper center. Iron Basin lies behind Peak 10,777, and in front of the next ridge to the north.
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 DSCF0419.JPG5 viewsThe southerly of the two summits of D. O. Lee Peak.
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 DSCF0421.JPG5 viewsCirque Lake was the only large lake in the Big Boulder Lake Basin I did not fish.
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 DSCF0425.JPG5 viewsEvening light over Cove Lake, Big Boulder Lakes.
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 DSCF0448.JPG5 viewsThe saddle separating the two lake basins comes into view.
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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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