Hiking from Bottcher Gap to Pico Blanco
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Part 1: 2010 pictures of Bottchers Gap to Launtz Ridge
Part 2 (June 2011): Launtz Ridge to Pico Blanco to Pico Blanco Camp:
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If you get to this sign, you went too far
The place where i left the trail (Note: the boundary of the national forest is somewhere between this place and Pico Blanco, and you are not supposed to do what is described below unless you have permission from the owners of Pico Blanco, Granite Rock)
The place where i left the trail
Scrambling towards Pico Blanck
Scrambling towards Pico Blanck
First view of Pico Blanck
Trivia: The Native Americans who lived here considered Pico Blanco a sacred mountain. According to their creation legend, this hill was the only land that survived the great flood, and all living species originated here.
Scrambling towards Pico Blanck
Scrambling towards Pico Blanco
Scrambling towards Pico Blanco
Scrambling towards Pico Blanco
Scrambling towards Pico Blanco
Scrambling towards Pico Blanco
Panoramic of the Double Cone to Mt Manuel to the ocean
First false summit
Ocean views
Ocean views
Second false summit
The ridge to the real summit
Towards the real summit
The real summit
Pico Blanco summit
Pico Blanco summit... what the heck...
Pico Blanco summit
Ocean views
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Double Cone
Going down the southern side
Going down the southern side
Going down the southern side
Going down the southern side
Going down the southern side
Going down the southern side
Going down the southern side
Going down the southern side
Pico Blanco Camp is beyond that open field
Pico Blanco Camp
Pico Blanco Camp
Pico Blanco Camp
Pico Blanco Camp
Pico Blanco Camp
Pico Blanco Camp
Pico Blanco Camp is below that hill
Shoe at the end of the "hike"
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