Mt Humphreys

I've rarely heard this peak desribed as "beautiful" and can't understood why. It rises 13,986 ft, and is a "failed" 14,000 footer. It ITALIC TEXT HEREabsolutely dominates the enire basin at the head of which it was first seen by the white man more than 100 years ago. The Humphreys Basin is huge: to the north lies the Mono Divide, with Bear Creek Spire, Abbot, Julius Caesar, Merriam Pk; west is 7 Gables, the Gemini, and the Pinnacles; down the central spine of the basin is Pilot Knob, Puppet Pass; and the south wall is the Glacier Divide, an 8 mile long impenatrable wall of white granite crossed by no major trail, and home to 100 glaciers of the 320 found in the entire Sierra. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder: I've base camped in this basin 6 times, and never tire of it; and its greatest summit is always glorious, in storms, in sun, and especially at night, surrounded by stars.