Looking down towards Sabrina Lake from the slabs between Hungry Packer and Moonlight Lakes. The route over the slabs provides quicker access to the basin above Echo Lake than boulder hopping from Moonlight Lake past Echo Lake.

Bill and Joan as we worked up the slabs towards Echo Lake from Sailor Lake.

Joan pitching the tent for our first camp. The "Sierra Wave" provides a backdrop. The campsite was at a small tarn above Echo Lake and below Picture Peak.

Sierra Wave cloud formation from camp on our first night.

Sunrise from camp, morning of 2nd day.

Sunrise from camp, morning of 2nd day.

Small tarn above Echo Lake where we made our fist camp.

Bill and Joan working up shelves on the way to the Haeckel-Wallace Col.

Highest tarn in the Haeckel-Wallace cirque. Surface was covered in ice bergs when I was here in early August.

Looking up the eastside of the Haeckel-Wallace Col. Route crosses boulder field to the lowest point right of the small outcrop visible left of center.

Joan and Howard on the summit block of Mt Wallace.

Bill "A Cheval" on the Mt Wallace summit block.

Mt McGee from summit of Mt Wallace

Clyde Spires from summit of Mt Wallace. Several 4th and 5th class routes on these spires are approached from Echo Lake.

Echo Lake and higher tarn where we camped, from summit of Mt Wallace.

What's left of Sabrina Lake after a drought! Looking over the ridge between Mt Haeckel and Picture Peak.

The west-side descent scree slope of the Haeckel-Wallace Col. Mt Wallace on the right.

Closest rounded peak is 12245 west of Sapphire Lake, the next more triangular peak is 12342 and the further peak on the right is the Hermit which we climbed the next day.

This buck and a couple of others were bedded down in the small conifers when we scared them up as we descended to Sapphire Lake.

Sunset from Sapphire Lake. Mt Huxley to the right and Mt Fiske in the center.

Strange clouds to the NE of our Sapphire Lake camp (2nd night).

The John Muir trail heading N through the Evolution Basin between Sapphire and Evolution Lakes.

Looking N towards the outlet of Evolution Lake. The far ridge in the center may be the SW ridge of Mathess Peak.