Ted's Hiking World Behind Winnemucca Lake
Mokelumne Wilderness

August 29, 2019

Well, you did a Ted-Hike and survived!  Actually, that's about the roughest route I can remember.  If you can do that one, then you can do anything.

It surely was worth it, though.  I was a bit weary, but not a bit sore.  Already I want to go back.  I believe that next year, I'll try the loop in the opposite direction; that way, most of the hard work will be done first, and some of the scenery will change.

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Approaching Ted's Garden #1 — the big meadow

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The Paintbrush are pink

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The venue is waiting

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Leaving the trail

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Ted's Garden #2 — the heather patch

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The adventure begins

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Buttercup *
Marsh Marigold

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Mountain Laurel

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300 feet up

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In Heidi-Land

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Steep passage

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Lanceleaf Stonecrop

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Trading places

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Red snow and Round Top

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Frozen Tarn #4

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Up the hill

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They'll have to believe you now

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The Ramparts

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Tarn #3, Red Lake Peak, and Lake Tahoe

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Tarn #5 and Hawkins Peak

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Last look back

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Starting the big downhill

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Ugh!

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We came down that?

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And that?

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Sierra Primrose *
Rock Fringe

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Granite Dells

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Another steep downhill

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Still a ways down

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Flowers galore

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The islands of Winnemucca

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Nature's doodling

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Buckwheat *
Paintbrush

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One more hill to do

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Hairy False Goldenmaster *
Red Elderberry

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Looking eastward

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Traversing the Jumbles, with Tarns #3 & #2 visible

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(Note the two dark spots in the sky: a camera glitch)

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The Jumbles did their job

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It's a cakewalk from here

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Frog Lake

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Reprise

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