Pictures of Mt Langley from Tuttle Creek

(Copyright © 2016 Piero Scaruffi)
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Highlights


From start to end

click here for the first part up Tuttle Creek



The destination (Mt Langley) from near the Black Falls

Almost at the Black Falls


Langley on the left and the wide chute to the Tuttle Basin in front

Langley

The wall to the right of the valley

Langley


An avalanche route

The route to the LeConte-Corcoran glacier

The first view of the entrance to the chute and the ridge above it (you can either enter the chute and follow it to the top or climb the ridge and follow it to the top

The route to the Leconte-Corcoran group across the divide


Up towards the chute

Last ramp to the chute (or, if preferred, continued on the ramp to the ridge)

Almost at the junction of the two routes


The Corcoran-Leconte group across the Tuttle Creek divide

The entrance to the chute

Inside the chute

Inside the chute


The route to the Leconte glacier

Inside the chute

There's a split inside the chute


Past the split

Inside the chute

Looking down to the Tuttle Creek

The unnamed "pass" before the unnamed plateau that we used for the descent


End of the chute, now climb any class-3 notch

Class 3 towards the top

The summit

The summit


View northwest (Whitney all the way to the right)

The Corcoran-Leconte group

The Corcoran-Leconte group with Whitney and Williamson

The Corcoran-Leconte group


Panorama northwest


View south where the Army Pass is

The summit plateau

USGS marker

Descending via a different route


Coming down a class-3 route

Coming down a class-3 route

The southeastern side of the ridge

Down the sandy side


Towards the unnamed pass

Looking up

Looking up (the summit is to the right)

The summit


The Leconte glacier

Looking up at the ridge

The ridge and one impassable chute

Going down the pass


Going down the pass

The chute that we took going up

The chute that we took going up


Going down from the pass

The chute that we took going up

Black Falls and the route to Leconte glacier

Black Falls from across


The ridge from the bottom


Video from the top (2017)


Video from the top


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(Copyright © 2016 Piero Scaruffi)
If you would like the original, high-resolution pictures, contact me