Trail to Mt. Abbot (13,711 ft) starts from Little Lakes Valley Trailhead (Rock Creek) conveniently located at 10,200 ft. Only Fedor joined me this time. We slept at trailhead and started early in the morning hoping to tag Mt. Abbot via North East Couloir and camp either near Mills lake or Treasure Lakes.
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| Mt. Abbot map |
There is a good trail going up to Mono Pass, but after Ruby Lake, it's all cross country and the higher you go, the more obstacles you encounter, all of them not harder than class 2 though.
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| Ruby Lake |
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| Mills Lake (top one) |
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| North East Couloir of Mt. Abbot (left) |
We was able to get to the beginning of couloir (~13,000 ft) when 3 contributing factors helped me to abort the mission: Fedor start feeling altitude with light headache, storm was forming to the north of us and it was almost 2:00 PM, kind of late. We took few pictures and continue to Treasure Lakes.
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| Treasure Peak |
Descent to the Treasure Lake was difficult (at least class 2) and slow since Fedor's headache become worse, so I was glad we did not go all the way to the peak. He needs more time for proper acclimatization and camping at lower altitude helps a lot.
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| Fishing at Treasure Lake |
Treasure Lakes are at 11,200 ft. After eating soup and drinking hot tea Fedor feel much better and went fishing, but did not catch anything, we need to practice more.
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| Our campsite |
Next morning it was easy stroll to the trail head, I think we stopped at pretty much every lake to test our fishing luck, but still did not catch anything.
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| Treasure Lake |
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| Little Lake Valley |
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