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Here are pictures of all of the sites listed in Bob's paper for the North Fork.

As Doug stated in one of his trivia questions a while back, there is another Carillon Creek crossing:


Carillon Creek stream crossing.

that is just a few (hundred) feet up the trail from the Portal. Everybody seems to forget about this. (It would be interesting to hear Bob's rating of the water quality since it's subjected to so much traffic.) It's also almost irrelevant because of the proximity to the Portal, although it does come in handy if it's not frozen in the winter.


1. Carillon Creek stream crossing


2-1. North Fork LP Creek


2-2. North Fork LP Creek


3. NF LP Creek stream crossing, N to S


4-1. NF LP Creek stream crossing, S to N


4-2. NF LP Creek stream crossing, S to N


5-1. Stream from Carillon Canyon


5-2. Stream from Carillon Canyon


6-1. Lower Boy Scout Lake

[img]http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/photos/2629972-S.jpg[/img]
6-2. Lower Boy Scout Lake - The outlet is best

[img]http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/photos/152311333-S.jpg[/img]
7-1. Slabs

[img]http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/photos/2798986-S.jpg[/img]
7-2. Slabs

[img]http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/photos/111733953-S.jpg[/img]
8-1. Clyde Meadow

[img]http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/photos/8350061-S.jpg[/img]
8-2. Clyde Meadow


[img]http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/photos/152313184-S.jpg[/img]
(Not Listed, probably because it's out of the way.) Upper Boy Scout Lake.


[img]http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/photos/139930647-S.jpg[/img]
9. Below Iceberg Lake - Waterfall option to Iceberg Lake (Around the corner in this photo.)

[img]http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/photos/84823539-S.jpg[/img]
10. Below Iceberg Lake - Scree slope option to Iceberg Lake

[img]http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/photos/84824084-S.jpg[/img]
10. Below Iceberg Lake - Scree slope option to Iceberg Lake (You can sometimes find small pools of clear water in the gully below.)

[img]http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/photos/152316697-S.jpg[/img]
11-1. Iceberg Lake

[img]http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/photos/2799981-S.jpg[/img]
11-2. Iceberg Lake

[img]http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/photos/109051948-S.jpg[/img]
11-3. Iceberg Lake

Great pics. Makes me want to attempt the MR someday.

Bumping this up since I've finished with my version of the photos related to the sites.

Len sure seems tall in photo 7-2.

CaT is in photo 8-2.

Added more information to original post.