WILLIAMS FAMILY
Williams Family Trip to the High Sierra, 2005
DAY 5: Bagging Picture Peak, finally.

Penstemons. Mt Powell in the background.

Shooting stars.

Sailor lake in the background.
Mark with a reality check on how far away Picture Peak is and rethinking all those beers.

Picture Peak.
We go up the backside, around to the left of the steep face.

Penstemons with Picture Peak in the background.

K's on Picture Peak.

Spiffy Columbine patch.

More columbines.

Mark going up Picture Peak. Echo Lake in the background.

Mark and Tye struggling up steep, soft snow.
Maggie offering encouragement.

K's, Mark, and Tye continue up the snow couloir.

Tye continues up the snow.

Ty-Wu ready to get off the snow.

Tye on some rock.

Tye and Kaelen on the summit.

Maggie the Adventure Dog also summits.

Looking back towards camp from the summit of Picture Peak.
Hungry Packer Lake in right foreground.
Sailor Lake directly behind it.
Topsy-Turvy Lake is the long lake behind Sailor Lake.
Dingleberry Lake is the small lake on the upper left side.
The large lake in the background is Lake Sabrina.
Our trailhead was just below the lake outlet.

Looking south from the summit.
Great view of the High Sierras.
Looking towards the Dusy Basin area.

Maggie the Adventure Dog.

K's contemplating future summits.

Tye giving Maggie a soft pillow to rest on.

Maggie, K's, Tye, and Mark coming down from the summit.
Some classic third class granite steps.

Looking back towards the Sierra crest on the way back to camp.

Indian Paintbrush with penstemons.

Claudia gets into clouds.

Alpenglow on Mt Powell, from camp.