 The trailhead |
 The trailhead |
 The trailhead |
 First creek crossing |
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Notes of this trip
| The trailhead |
The trailhead |
The trailhead |
First creek crossing |
 A nice wide trail |
 Entering the Muir Wilderness |
 Second creek crossing |
 The New Army Pass fork (follow the sign for Cottonwood Lakes) |
 Sunrise on the Cottonwood Lakes trail |
 The Muir Lake fork |
 First glimpse of Mt Langley |
 Old Army Pass and Langley from below Lake 1 |
 Old Army Pass from below Lake 1 |
 First Cottonwood Lake |
 Langley from below Lake 1 |
 Langley from below Lake 1 |
 Lake 1 |
 Old Army Pass (first on the left), the Lake 5 basin and Mt Langley from Lake 2 |
 House at Cottonwood Lake 2 |
 Mt Langley from Cottonwood 2 |
 Cottonwood Lake 2 |
 Cottonwood Lake 2 |
 Langley from Lake 2 |
 Langley from Lake 2 |
 Lake 2 |
 Lake 2 |
 Towards the last lakes |
 Towards the last lakes |
 Towards the last lakes |
 Old Army Pass from Lake 3 |
 Old Army Pass from Lake 3 |
 Lake 3 |
 Lake 3 |
 Lake 3 |
 Lake 3 |
 Lake 3 |
 Pine trees |
 Pine trees |
 Pine trees |
 Pine trees |
 Pine trees |
 Old Army Pass |
 Marmot |
 Lake 3 |
 Lake 4 and Old Army Pass |
 Lake 5 |
 NOT Army Pass |
 Lake 5 |
 Lake 5 |
 Old Army Pass (2005) |
 Old Army Pass (2007) |
 Towards the pass |
 Towards the pass |
 Towards Old Army Pass |
 Towards Old Army Pass |
 Towards Old Army Pass |
 Towards Old Army Pass (the trail below) |
 Lakes 4 and 5 |
 Towards the pass |
 Lakes 4 and 5 |
 Towards the pass |
 Hiking into the pass |
 Lakes 4 and 5 from the pass |
 Old Army pass |
 Sign at the pass |
 Old Army Pass from above |
 You can't see Langley yet, but you can see a lot of sierras north of the pass |
 The trail towards Langley |
 The trail towards Langley |
 The trail |
 The trail |
 Finally Langley appears |
 Mt Langley |
 Mt Langley |
 Old Army Pass |
 Approaching Langley |
 Mt Langley |
 The trail |
 The view north |
 The trail |
 The view north |
 The view north |
 The trail |
 View towards Old Army Pass |
 The view north |
 The view behind (the pass) |
 View of the Cottonwood basin |
 Approaching Langley |
 View of the Cottonwood basin |
 The view behind (the pass) |
 Approaching Langley |
 The straight way up: climbing rocks |
 View of the Cottonwood basin |
 View of Owens Valley |
 The view below me |
 Cottonwood Basin |
 Old Army Pass and Cottonwood Basin |
 A more popular route |
 A more popular route |
 A more popular route |
 Old Army Pass |
 New Army Pass |
 View below |
 The ridge to the top |
 The ridge to the top |
 The ridge to the top |
 The ridge to the top |
 The trail below |
 The summit plateau |
 The summit plateau |
 Mt Langley's summit |
 Mt Langley's summit |
 Mt Langley's summit |
 Summit plateau |
 The sierras north of Langley (I recognize Tyndall near the fist-shaped mountain) |
 View of the sierras with Mt Whitney in the center |
 Mt Whitney from Mt Langley |
 Owens Valley |
 Owens Valley |
 Owens Valley |
 Mt Whitney |
 Panoramic east to west |
 Panoramic east to west |
 Panoramic east to west |
 Panoramic east to west |
 Panoramic east to west |
 Panoramic east to west |
 Panoramic east to west |
 Panoramic east to west |
 Panoramic east to west |
 Panoramic west to east (Mt Whitney is on the right) |
 Pass and lakes |
 The Cottonwood Lakes |
 The drainage below the summit |
 Cirque Peak? |
 Hikers coming up the plateau |
 The summit plateau |
 Cottonwood lakes and Cirque Peak |
 Army Pass, Cottonwood lakes, Cirque Peak |
 Climbing down |
 Climbing down |
 Climbing down |
 Climbing down |
 Another way to go up is to stay to the right of this monolith |
 but don't expect a real trail |
 The monolith from below |
 One last look from the pass north |
 One last look at Langley |
 Mt Langley from the ridge after the pass |
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