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Heading out on from the Mono Meadow trailhead
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View of half dome through a burned area on the Mono Meadow Trail
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View of half dome through a burned area on the Mono Meadow Trail
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View of half dome through a burned area on the Mono Meadow Trail
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Flowers love a burned area!
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Turning east towards the Clark Range, some domes kept me company.
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Precarious rock
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Pollenators love burn areas!
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Racing a thunderstorm (part 1 of 4)
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View back down Illilouette Creek's canyon that I've been hiking up
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As the trail gains elevation, the trees give way to granite slabs
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Ferns along a sheltered portion of the trail along Illilouette Creek
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Typical shady hiking along the trail up Illilouette Creek
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Finally the red rocks of Red Peak come into view
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Heading up towards Ottoway Lake
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Morning glow on the ridge south of Ottoway Lake
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Morning glow on the ridge south of Lower Ottoway Lake
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Lower Ottoway Lake
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Lower Ottoway Lake
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Lower Ottoway Lake
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The trail meanders around the side of Lower Ottoway Lake before climbing steeply to Upper Ottoway Lake
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Looking west down on Lower Ottoway Lake from the trail to Red Peak Pass
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Upper Ottoway Lake
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A lovely hanging meadow near the south side of Red Peak Pass
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Looking down on Lower Ottoway Lake from the Red Peak Pass trail
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Climbing higher and higher on the Red Peak Pass trail. The pass is in the dip between the two close gray peaks towards the left.
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Looking down on Upper Ottoway Lake from the Red Peak Pass trail
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The moon above orange talus below Red Peak Pass
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The trail crew did a great job here… you can't even see the trail at all from below! Red Peak Pass is in the curved dip on the right.
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Looking south from Red Peak Pass
