Suttle noted that the spur to the summit was marked by a "D73" sign, but I saw no trace of the sign. The turnoff was pretty hard to miss.
10/04/2004 11:57 AM
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D73 was much less maintained than the main road, and numerous deadfalls blocked the trail. Very very dry up here.
10/05/2004 08:42 PM
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The D74 sign was still present near the summit.
10/04/2004 12:21 PM
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Looking south from the Big Pine Mountain summit.
10/04/2004 12:22 PM
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Small clearing at the Big Pine Mountain summit. Supposedly, there was a Sierra Club registry somewhere up here. I didn't see it, but I didn't look too hard. Suttle recommended "mouting the small boulder piles to gaurantee reaching the actual topmost point", but this seemed a bit absurd.
10/04/2004 12:26 PM
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The summit was too rounded and tree covered to provide much of a view. This shot is looking southwest toward West Big Pine.
10/04/2004 12:29 PM
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Heading back down from the peak, looking back up at the Big Pine Mountain summit.
10/04/2004 01:27 PM
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Very hot and exposed as I climbed back up to the Madulce Peak trail junction. Temps peaked in the mid 80s in the afternoon.
10/04/2004 01:42 PM
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Looking back at Big Pine Mountain, a fairly nondescript peak.
10/04/2004 01:45 PM
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