Best of 2016 California hikes

("Somewhere" is not a place)
All hikes of 2016 | Hiking in California | Best of previous years
...with a few exceptions, these hikes were not on a trail...
(This time i listed them in inversed chronological order, otherwise my yearly "best of" pages always start with the short spring hikes that can be misleading)
My guarantee: No Instagram No Photoshop No Filters, just the way it is.

Mt Barnard's Citadel


Panorama: Mt Russell, the unnamed lake below it, Tulainyo Lake, Tunnabora and the Cleaver from the pass


Panorama: Tunnabora to Carillon


Great Western Divide, the valley where the John Muir trail runs and Mt Barnard


The wall above Wales Lake


Towards Wales Lake


Mt Hale and Wales Lake


Panorama with the two passes


Morgensen, Tunnabora and Lake Tulainyo


Lake Tulainyo


The Great Western Divide


Mt Lamarck and Schober Lakes


The real summit and the wall heading north


Panorama from Mt Mendel to the west


Panorama from the Palisades to the Evolution region


Mt Darwin, Mendel, Darwin Canyon


Mt Keith


Panorama from University Pass


Panorama coming down University Pass


Center Basin below University Pass


Panorama from Mt Tyndall to Mt Stanford


Mt Williamson, Langley, Whitney and Tyndall in the same picture


North Palisade


Panorama from the U-notch chute


Minaret loop, Ansel Adams Wilderness


Ediza Lake panorama: from the Minarets to Banner Peak


Ritter, Banner, Ediza Lake


Mt Wallace


View south from Echo Lake (Echo Pass is straight up, Wallace Col is to the right)


Mt Conness and Yosemite White Mt from Tioga Lake


Shastina


Basket Dome, Yosemite


All hikes of 2016 | All hiking pictures | Description of these hikes | Best of previous years