On june 15 we hiked up to mono pass out of mosquito flat trailhead. This was a very low snow year. Snow conditions were more like the end of summer than the beginning. Flowers were few.
Over looking Little Lakes Valley from a view point of the Mono pass trail.
There were some flowers. This is a Sandwort.
This is the only pink penstemon we saw. They should have been plentiful.
We did see a fair amount of Monkey flowers.
A series of zoomed in shots of the mountains surrounding Little Lakes Valley.
This is from the mono pass area looking back down the way we came. The trail drops off the lip you can see and turns left to switchback down to the lakes which would be on the other side of the ridge to the left of this snow patch. In a normal June the snow would fill the frame. See the introductory photo at the top of my blog.
The trail went alongside the snow with no reason to step up onto it.
At the top of the pass is a view of a summit lake. Some of the group hiked down to it.
Saw two flowers in the sand. This is a Draba, maybe Lemond's Draba.
This has been identified as a type of Pussypaws. Doesm't look anything like the usual ones you see at lower elevations. This is at 12.000 feet.
Small flat area just before the left turn to switchback down to the lakes again.
Ruby lake view from the switchbacks. June a few years ago when we first scouted this trip, it was frozen over.
A couple of the Little Lakes.
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