Onion Valley Trailhed: bears have been active in this area
Bears don't like dog food (but they like sampling it)
Tell me again, where are we going?
Kearsarge Peak
Kearsarge Lakes and Pinnacles
Trail by one of the Kearsarge Lakes
Stormy Mount Brewer over Kearsarge Lake
Rain drops on an impresionist painting
West Vidette
Here comes the rain...
West Vidette: hoping for good weather
Breakfast time
It's turning into a beautiful day
Stormy skies
West Vidette reflecting on a pond
Upper Vidette Lakes
The long sandy ascent of West Vidette
A Pica enjoying the morning view
Brewer and the deep canyon of East Lake
Summit Register... no more than 4 parties per year
Deerhorn mountain
Mount Stanford
Arturo and Peter at the West Vidette Summit
Mount Brewer
The chute to the West Vidette summit ridge
The chute to West Vidette summit ridge
Vidette Creek Falls
Peter next to one of Shorty Lovelace's Cabins
Shorty Lovelace's bunk
Shorty Lovelace's fireplace
Back on the JMT
Bubbs creek under grey skies
What are you doing there?
East Vidette bowl
The range of light
Dome-shaped gendarme on East Ridge of East Vidette (bypassing it is the crux of the Class 3 climb)
East Ridge of East Vidette
Peter on the airy summit of East Vidette
Mount Brewer peeking behind West Vidette
Mount Brewer from East Vidette
Arturo on the summit of East Vidette
Peter descending the summit of East Vidette
Dangerous chute connecting the East Ridge with the Class 2 SouthEast chutes
SouthEast chute, a not-so-good descend route
Crossing Bubbs Creek
East Vidette
The High Sierra
Descending into the Kearsarge Lakes Basin
Onion Valley
Heart Lake
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) in the shape of Africa