High Sierra Trips - Cloudripper

Well... I posted this yesterday, but somehow it disappeared??!! I'm not sure what happened. Kinda wierd, but whatever. Here we go again. Cloudripper!

We drove up to Bishop for a 3 day trip to climb Cloudripper(13,525')!! We started at the South Lake trailhead and headed up the Waterpipe trail to meet the Green lake trail. We got to Brown lake where we stopped for a short lunch break and then hiked the last mile or so to Green lake where we made our base camp. Green lake was super nice and we found a good spot to camp on the far side of the lake where we had great views up at Vagabond peak. The next morning we started early and climbed up above the lake. We ascended the broad north ridge up the scree and talus to the summit of Vagabond peak(13,374')!! From there we had to descend through a wide saddle before starting our climb up Cloudripper. We made it to the summit and signed the register, but we couldn't stay very long because a thunderstorm was building quick. We took some pictures and headed down from the summit. We headed back across the saddle, back over Vagabond, and eventually back down to our camp at Green lake. We camped there one more night and hiked back out to South lake the next morning.

Overlooking Bishop creek

Meadows along the trail

Brown lake

Arriving at Green lake

Sunset

Reflection on Green lake

Green lake and Vagabond peak

Climbing Vagabond peak

Cloudripper from Vagabond peak

Overlooking Thunder and Lightning lake from Vagabond peak

Climbing Cloudripper

Approaching the summit

Views from Cloudripper

On the summit of Cloudripper

Views from Cloudripper

Me on the summit blocks

Starting down from the summit

Thunder and Lightning lake

Getting back to Green lake

Back at camp

Sunset

Starry night

Pup is watching the fish

Crossing the inlet of Green lake

Hiking back down passed Brown lake

Hiking back to South lake

Hiking back to South lake

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