With the previous day’s hike and one night sleep, I felt I am well adjusted to the altitude. Today we planned to go a bigger hike.<\/p>\n
We came to the same trail head again. Today we got up much earlier and got a closer parking spot, but still surprised to see so many early birds took the closest parking already.<\/p>\n
[singlepic id=364 w=320 h=240 float=left]The trail forks not far from the trail head and keeps going up quickly. Then we stood way beyond the lakes and had a great view of them which we past by yesterday. Ah, the names are really after the shapes. Box lake has a square shape. Here you see the Heart lake. The shape is just like a heart!<\/p>\n
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Our turn around spot was Mono pass which is at 12,000 feet elevation, the ground is rocky and sandy, almost no plants growing, the scenary is more like moon surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the previous day’s hike and one night sleep, I felt I am well adjusted to the altitude. Today we planned to go a bigger hike. We came to the same trail head again. Today we got up much earlier … Continue reading