Snow at the trailhead!

Trailhead at Upper Rock Creek area

View while ascending up to Mono Pass

Summit Lake with Mono Pass in the backgroundView of Summit Lake with Mono Pass in the background ascending up to Mono Pass.

Brian at Summit lake

Meadow after climbing Laurel Lake Trail

Laurel Lake

We're going to be ascending this to Bighorn Pass

View at the top of Bighorn Pass

We traversed over to Shout of Refief Pass. This is the view of Rosy Finch Lake from the pass.

View of our cross country traverse from Bighorn to Shout of Relief

Brian at beautiful Lake Virginia

We had to descend this steep scree-covered area to the uppermost Deer Lake.

One of the Deer lakes

Brian heading to the uppermost Deer Lake

Another picture of the Deer lakes. We camped there the last night.

View of Mammoth area prior to our final descent.