 First up was Mount Augusta. We reached a decent camp in War Canyon about 7:30PM the night before. Here's a large-scale map of roads. |
 The route from the last 4x4 spot requires about 2300' accumulated gain. |
 Starting out SE. |
 The route starts on an old road. |
 Augusta appears in center distance. |
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 View from summit. Desatoya Twins across valley. |
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 Relay station on top (very new). |
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 View ~NNW |
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 Descending. View back to top. |
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 Phlox |
 Granite Gilia |
 Bluebells |
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 Augusta on way out. |
 Next that day -- Lewis, S of Battle Mt. This can be a drive-up to within 100'. We chose to walk a little. |
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 View S off road. |
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 Courtesy Joel B. |
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 We stayed that night by the Red Bird Mine on the W side of Jackson HP. We had to pull some really big rocks out of the road. |
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 View E from our camp by the mine. |
 Next morn we drove up a bit till the road at ~7900' was blocked by a huge boulder. Adit at the last parking. |
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 View S to King Lear from top. |
 View NE across vast tableland at top. |
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 That same day, we drove up and headed W on what was a very rough road, to meet Dave and Al at Blue Lake. The next day we drove out the more sedate W route. |
 We started from Blue Lake about 11:45, and headed toward Duffer. Kay and I got separated from the rest of the group and traversed to the top to avoid snow. I think we were on the highest point, and there was a register. |
 The mapping by photo- grammetry is ambiguous. The two marked elevations represent distinct rocky areas on the aerial photos, and not necessarily local highpoints. The 9400'+ peaklets in the middle are tree-covered, and not suitable for elevation checks. |
 Starting out on hike. |
 Blue Lake. |
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 View N as Kay works up summit ridge. |
 I visited this point to S, Which is the site of the 9428' mark on maps. It is definitely lower than peaklet with register, but was probably a sharper target for photogrammetric elevations. |
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 Kay back on peak with register. |
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 Joel and Jodie showed up ~30 minutes later. The rest of the group arrived about 45- 50 minutes after that. |
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 Kay looks NE. |
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 Down through the snow. |
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 Back at Blue Lake. |

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