Guitar Lake
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| Tyndal Creek at Sunrise |
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| Breakfast on Tyndal Creek |
Tuesday, July 17
I believe that this was the coldest
morning we had yet. Water formed a thin
layer of ice in just a couple of minutes after I poured it into a pan. So, wearing every layer of clothing I had
carried, and glad that I had it, I heated the water for my coffee and
cereal. I then carried them down to the creek
and found I rock in the middle of it I could sit on. I ate breakfast there watching the morning
sun as it poured its colors and warmth onto the water.
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| View facing east on JMT towards Timberline and Gutiar Lake |
The original plan for the day was
to camp at Timberline Lake but that was closed to any camping as the NFS was in
the process of a restoration project there.
We stopped anyways and tried our luck fishing. In a little over an hour we had 5 fish that
we kept for tonight’s dinner. An took a
couple of cracks at throwing the line out too, but he couldn’t get anything for
some reason. I tried his line and
immediately I had another one. I had
coached him and it looked like he was doing everything right, but somehow the
fish seemed to know that it was his first time fishing. Tomorrow we would get them.
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| Timberline Lake |
We hiked a couple of miles more up
the mountain and ended up camping at Guitar Lake. From Guitar Lake the summit of Mt. Whitney
and the official end of the JMT is only 5 miles away. The scout troop was camped at Guitar Lake
that night too, but the lake was big enough that we were able to get far enough
away not to be bother by their noise.
One of the leaders pointed out Mt. Whitney to me. There it was our final goal plainly in sight
now about 2000 feet above us. That
evening and the following morning I climb all over the cliffs of the lake
trying to get pictures of that peak. In
the evening I set up my sleeping bag on a granite shelf facing the peak and set
up my camera on the tripod. Whenever I awoke
at night, I took pictures of the night sky as the starts circled Mt. Whitney
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| Mt. Whitney |
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| Mt. Whitney at Sunset |
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| Mt. Whitney reflecting at sunrise |
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| Our camp by Guitar Lake |
Stars circling Mt. Whitney from sunset to sunrise
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| Photoshop drybrush artistic rendition |
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