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Lupines at the trailhead
The trailhead is located off highway 50 across from Camp Sacramento,...
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Pine Forest, Sierra-at-Tahoe slopes
The trail climbs through the mixed pine forest and enters the Desolation...
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Skyrocket (Gilia)
Forest meadow flowers included gilia, larkspur, paintbrush and pinedrops.
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Sierra-at-Tahoe
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Mountain Pride (Penstemon)
Penstemon, in pink and blue, grow in the rocks as the trail climbs...
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Pussy-Paws
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Marmot!
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Pyramid Peak and Western Whitebark Pines
These trees are right at the tree line and stand stunted 6-20 feet...
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Talus, tree line, Pyramid Peak
This is the talus field just above the tree line of Western Whitebark...
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Ralston Peak Summit
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Me on Ralston Peak, 9235'
Fallen Leaf Lake and Lake Tahoe are in the background. The high peak in the...
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Lake Aloha and Lake of the Woods
in the Crystal Range, from the summit of Ralston Peak. This is the...
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Mt. Tallac from Ralston Peak
with Lake Tahoe in the background and Tamarack Lake in the foreground.
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Lake Tahoe and Fallen Leaf Lake
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Echo Lakes
with the Carson Range and Freel Peak (10,886').
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Ralston Peak Summit Ridge
with Round Top (10,381') and the Mokelumne Wilderness beyond the ski slopes.
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The rest of the summit ridge
with, from left: Pyramid Peak, Mt. Agassiz, Mt. Price, Jacks Peak, and Dicks...
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Closeup on Lake Aloha
with Lake of the Woods
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Ralston, Tamarack, Cagwin Lakes
with Fallen Leaf Lake and Lake Tahoe
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Climbing down the summit
with Ralston Lake, Tamarck Lake, Fallen Leaf Lake, and Lake Tahoe below.
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Western Whitebark Pines
below Ralston Peak
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Spreading Phlox
below Ralston Peak summit.
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Mt. Tallac from South Lake Tahoe
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