Ansel Adams Wilderness

 

We left our beautiful campsite over looking Mt Banner and Mt Ritter and headed deep into the Ansel Adams Wilderness. The trail dropped down a steep snow chute

to where it plunged into Garnet Lake

and walked along the lake.  That is Banner Peak at the end of the lake. The astute observer will notice that they can no longer see Mt. Ritter. that is because we've circled around the right hand side of Mt. Banner and it is blocking the view of Mt. Ritter.

This is what it looked like a week earlier when we were seventy five miles away.

We continued up over Island Pass, looking back at Garnet Lake

and onto 1000 Island Lake.

They may look the same, but they feel very different.  Perhaps it is the sun light, the breeze, or the fact that we laid about in the sun for an hour, but the lakes do all feet different.

And we set up our last high altitude camp on Rush Creek.