Tuolumne, Langley, and the Golden Trout Wilderness

I went to Tuolumne Wed evening to climb with my friend Drew the next day. We went out to South Whiz dome and toproped a few routes. I'd tried Shadow Warrior before when I was still kind of sick and flailed. This time I flailed less and figured it out. I doubt I'll ever go back enough to send it - which would take effort and knowing the sequence. The bottom is pretty hard.

I felt like I didn't get a good enough workout, so I drove back down to Lone Pine to finish Langley, which I'd bailed on last weekend due to the weather looking ominous.  I was at the top in 5 hours, so I decided to finish a big loop through the Golden Trout Wilderness. I think the total was about 22 miles. My feet hurt.

Right now I'm hanging out in Bishop trying to decide what to do with my day. I RSVP'd for a wedding in Convict Lake this afternoon, but I'm dirty and my feet hurt. I don't really feel like being social on a good day, and I'm not a big fan of weddings. Plus tomorrow I'm supposed to do Middle Palisade with Drew and his friend Pete (and possibly S. Watson). I don't want to drive all the way up there and then drive all the way back down to the trailhead outside of Big Pine (this after I drove from the trailhead outside of Lone Pine to Bishop this morning...).

Here are the photos:

 Langley in the distance. No storm brewing today.

 Marmots: fat, lazy, and cool with it.

 Old Army pass

 Summit register

 Summit views

 Summit shot

 Heading west down from Old Army pass. An unnamed trib to Rock Creek is on the left

 This creek was really pretty - amazing that water is flowing through such dry terrain

 An attempt at an artistic foxtail pine photo. I am such a crappy photographer.

 I thought the foxtail pines were really cool.

Slogging through a sandy forest was not that cool.

 A view east from Cottonwood pass

 A grouse hen and her chick