Many ascents made...

After 6 days out in the mountains, we have made it to Mammoth Lakes.

The past week has been quite the workout... Every day we have had a pass to climb over, often being over a 3000 foot ascent...
( Muir Pass was an 11 mile climb going from the valley bottom at 8000 feet to the pass at 11,900, through a LOT of snow & ice...) but yesterday was the triple-humper!

We left our campsite at around 8500 ft, climbed to 10,000 ft within 5 miles, then in 4 miles, dropped steeply down a series of switchbacks to a creek at 9000 ft, crossed that & began the big climb to Silver Pass, topping out at almost 11,000 ft, 6.5 miles later... Where I took the above pic.
If that wasn't enough, we then had one more climb to do... So over 3 miles, we knee-bustingly went down to 9500 ft, then spent another 3 miles zig-zagging back up to 10,650 ft.
Luckily, as we were almost at the end of our food supplies, our packs weren't as heavy as they had been.
So now we are taking 5 in town, going to resupply & get laundry done, collect the bounce-box, & once I have my Eee PC, I will upload some of the latest pix to the main website journal.
More to come soon...
Cheers!
RWK.