Day: November 12, 2015

Today’s discovery in the ancient and never-published film negative archives documents a 1972 backpack with a couple of friends and Sierra Club members to the Mineral King area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range.  First day we hiked to around 7000 feet where we camped overnight on the shore, just a few feet from the water in an ice-cold snowmelt-fed lake.  (You can see the lake in pics both at shore level and looking down from the overhead peak.) The next day was a stripped-down-for-action scramble up the rocks for another 4000 or so feet to the top of Sawtooth Peak.