Mt. Conness and the lakes around it

Mt. Conness and the lakes around it

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Additional Information Image Type(s): Alpine Climbing, Bouldering, Hiking, Wildlife, Scenery, Water

Saddlebag lake

Record high snowfall in the Sierra Nevada mountains in 2011, and record low temperature in the Spring made the sceneries in Yosemite national park spectacular. You typically see this much snow in early July not in early September!!
saddlebag lake

North peak

North peakNorth peak

Mt. DanaMt. Dana



On the way to Mt. Conness

We started the hike from the north side of saddlebag lake.
Mt. Conness and North peak

North peak and Greenstone lake

Greenstone lake

Greenstone lake

On the way

On the way

waterfall

Mt. ConnessMt. Conness

Mt. Conness

Mt. Conness

Conness lakes

Mt. Conness

Conness lakes

Conness lakes

Conness lakes

Mt. Conness and the lakes

looking north

Source of the creek

North peak and Conness lakes

Looking south

Mt. Maclure

looking south

Mt. Lyell and Mt. Maclure

North peak

On the ridge

Looking NE

Conness lakes

On the way

Looking NE

North peak

Looking south

The summit

Conness lakes

Mt. Conness and its glacierMt. Conness and its glacier

Looking SW

Mt. Conness summit

Mt. Conness glacier

Mt. Conness west ridge







On the way back from the other side (south east side)



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EricChu

EricChu - Oct 9, 2011 7:43 am - Voted 10/10

Very nice album!

How high is the lake, and how high is Mount Conness?

kamran

kamran - Oct 9, 2011 1:03 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Very nice album!

Hi Eric,

Thank you for your votes and comments.
Mt. Conness is 12590ft (3837m) high.
Saddlebag lake is 10060ft (3066m) high, the lower conness lake is about 10500. I am not sure about the elevation of the highest lake. It could be somewhere around 10800ft.

I will finish the album today.

Kamran

nader

nader - Oct 12, 2011 9:54 am - Voted 10/10

Pictures

I just saw all of the pictures you added to this album. Very impressive. A few more year like this and you will have glaciers all over the Sierras again, but that probably will not happen, or will it?

kamran

kamran - Oct 12, 2011 12:39 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Pictures

Thank you Nader for your votes and comments.
This year was truly an exceptional year. The snowfall was twice the annual average, and it was cold till almost mid June. There is still some snow in Squaw valley from last season. I had never seen anything like this. Hopefully, we will have more years like this but I doubt it.

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