Humphreys Basin

[ProCaliberTraveler]

Saturday’s walk to Paiute Pass and the Humphreys Basin in the Eastern Sierra near Bishop, CA was much less exciting and painful compared to last year’s hike when I got caught in a thunderstorm complete with thunder, lightning, and hail.

Mt. Humphreys is 13,986 feet tall and it’s one of the prominent peaks to the west of Bishop in the Owens Valley. These two images show what it looks like from the west side. I took this image from nearly 12,000 feet in elevation.

This angle shows the basin to the southwest, Paiute Pass, and Muriel Lake.

 

[AlanLichty]

Would you like to buy a tree? That is an amazingly stark looking landscape up at that elevation. I like the two views of Mt. Humphreys - esp. the color version with the interesting hues in the exposed strata to the right of the peak. Is the haze from wildfire smoke?

 

[ProCaliberTraveler]

Would you like to buy a tree? That is an amazingly stark looking landscape up at that elevation. I like the two views of Mt. Humphreys - esp. the color version with the interesting hues in the exposed strata to the right of the peak. Is the haze from wildfire smoke?

Yes, that’s wildfire smoke, but I don’t know which fire it was coming from.

 

[JimFox]

That's great you got the there Michael. Young got some nice images and I am glad the hike went well.

I haven't been to that spot there, but I will say it reminds me a lot of the top of My Whitney where the view at the top just is not impressive at all.

 

[Jeffrey]

Nice Imaging. I love that place. Been over Paiute Pass many times.