Pictures of Mt Cloudripper

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Highlights


From start to end

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Fork to Chocolate lakes

Fork to Chocolate lakes

Cloudripper in the distance (mountain on the right)

Cloudripper and Chocolate Mountain


Chocolate Mountain reflected in Bull Lake


Bull Lake


More reflections

Wildflower

Wildflowers

Bull Lake


Wildflowers

Chocolate lake

Chocolate Mountain

The last chocolate lake


Chutes to climb the ridge

Chutes to climb the ridge

Chutes to climb the ridge

Chutes to climb the ridge


An incredible number of chutes to go up

An incredible number of chutes to go up


Clodripper's location

South of Cloudripper

South of Lake 3

Reflection in Lake 3


Cloudripper from the eastern side of Lake 3

Chocolate Mountain reflected in Lake 3

I picked the chute to the right (2B) but you can pick any of them


This is where it splits (i call them 2A and 2B)

The next chute is wider (chute 3)

Agassiz in the distance

Entering chute 2B


Chute 2B

Chocolate Mountain

Chute 2B

Chocolate Mountain and Chocolate lakes


Switching to chute 3

Chocolate 4 and the Long Lake

Bull Lake and view west

Top of chute 3


Chocolate Mt, Chocolate lakes, Bull Lake and view west

View northwest towards Long Lake and the trail to Bishop Pass

At the summit the first view of Cloudripper

At the summit the first view of Cloudripper


Chocolate Mt and lakes

Mt Agassiz

Long Lake and Bishop Pass trail

Long Lake and Bishop Pass trail


Towards the summit

Now the real summit is visible

The summit plateau


View west


View south


View south

Plateau and Cloudtipper

Chute 4 at the top

Chute 4


Chute 4

Seven lake basin from the ridge of Cloudripper

The seven lakes

The Palisades


The Palisades: Gayley, Sill, North Pal, Tunderbolt, Winchell, Agassiz


The real summit

Don't climb it from this side, of course

The plateau and view north

Palisades


Broader view of the Palisades


At the summit

At the summit

Now you can see both the Chocolate Lakes and the lakes of the Bishop Pass trail

Bull Lake and Chocolate lakes


View west


Seven lake basin

The seven lakes

Palisades

The summit with the sign


Southwest to Mt Humphries

Mt Sill

North Pal


Agassiz

Winchell

Vagabond Peak on the way to Green Lake

Various chutes coming up from Chocolate Lake 3


The register

Getting to the summit: walk to the left

Cloudripper from the plateau

Cloudripper from Vagabond Peak


Cloudripper's summit from Vagabond Peak

Last view of Cloudripper

Green Lake

Green Lake


Vagabond Peak from Green Lake

Green Lake

Vagabond Peak from Green Lake

Green Lake


The next lake down

The next lake down

Green Lake trail

Green Lake trail


Green Lake trail

Green Lake trail

Green Lake trail

Green Lake trail


Green Lake trail

Green Lake trail

Fall colors

Fall colors


The beginning of the Green Lake at South Lake's Bishop Pass trailhead area

View from Mt Cloudripper (video)


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(Copyright © 2014 Piero Scaruffi)
If you would like the original, high-resolution pictures, contact me