Trail Crest, 13,600 feet, cold

Hikers_Trail_Crest_0869_17DEC0468.pdf

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Title

Trail Crest, 13,600 feet, cold

Subject

4 hikers at Trail Crest pass on Mt Whitney

Description

(left to right) Danny Ihara (DS64, TASP factotum), Jan Vleck DS69, Karen Davidson (faculty spouse), and Denis Clark DS69 at Trail Crest on the Mt Whitney Trail. Cold snow weather prevented going on to the summit, and instead we descended to Crabtree Meadows.

Creator

Mike Davidson

Source

Mike & Karen Davidson photo collection

Publisher

n/a

Date

August 1969

Contributor

Denis Clark

Rights

Deep Springs College

Relation

n/a

Format

TIFF

Language

n/a

Type

Still Image

Identifier

17DEC0468

Coverage

Southern High Sierras

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

color print

Physical Dimensions

3 x 5 in

Notes

In this era, there were usually two Sierra trips each summer, a weekend trip and an end-of-summer week-long trip. This year for the long trip, small groups hiked in the area around Mt. Whitney. The previous winter was very heavy and there was much more snow even in August.

Archive

Mike & Karen Davidson photo collection

Citation

Mike Davidson, “Trail Crest, 13,600 feet, cold,” Deep Springs Archive, accessed December 23, 2024, https://archive.deepsprings.edu/items/show/871.

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