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| Hiking | 15.50 Miles |
4,500 AEG |
| | Hiking | 15.50 Miles | | | |
| 4,500 ft AEG | | | | |
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| no partners | | | Hike starts from the Mineral King parking lot. First 4 miles are switchbacks up and over a hump towards lower Monarch Lake. Patchy snow from the creek crossing until the Crystal Lake junction. From there, once reaching the North side of the trail above 10,000', the trail was completely snow-covered until Monarch Lakes, but there were good steps kicked out. Upper Monarch lake is still frozen. We couldn't find the trail up to the peak so we just went straight up in snow and sand which was the worst slog of my life, but we eventually found a trail to the pass. From the pass we traversed to the peak. The approach was Class II scramble, little sketchy at spots. Going down was super fast, sliding down in sand. We returned the way we came. |
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