<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../../scripts/xslt/photo_page_driver.xsl"?>

<photos name="Mono" title="Mono County Highpoint Photographs">

   <page_header name="Mono County Highpoint Photographs"/>

   <trip>

    <external_photo_links name="">

      <external_link name="Summit panorama simulation (north)"
                      url="http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/%5Cpanoramas%5CAME%5CWhite-MP-N.gif"
                  caption="By Jonathan de Ferranti. The reader may wish to correlate the indicated mountains
                           with the photograph provided below by Petter Bjorstad."/>
      
      <external_link name="Summit panorama simulation (south)"
                      url="http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/%5Cpanoramas%5CAME%5CWhite-MP-S.gif"
                  caption="By Jonathan de Ferranti. The reader may wish to correlate the indicated mountains
                         with the photograph provided below by Petter Bjorstad."/>

      <external_link name="Sierra Nevada panorama"
                      url="http://www.ii.uib.no/~petter/mountains/N5/Nevada/14-21.jpg"
                  caption="By Petter Bjorstad. A detailed summit view of the High Sierra."/>

    </external_photo_links>

  </trip>
    
   <trip>

     <preamble>
      Photographs from an ascent of White Mountain Peak by Adam Helman and Spencer Mills 
      on September 4, 2005 <i>via</i> the standard trailhead at 11,700 feet. 
      Details of the weekend are provided in this <a href="../Mono_3.html">trip report</a>. 
    </preamble>

     <trip_photo_list name=""> 

       <photo caption="Adam&apos;s brother Dale (at photo right) and Spencer lie in or on 
                       their sleeping bags located in a hollow immediately southeast 
                       of the trailhead locked gate. A tent was later erected for the night." 
                  url="Dale_Spencer_trailhead_33.jpg"/>

       <photo caption="The observatory encountered 2.5 miles into the hike and at a 12,850 foot pass." 
                  url="observatory_33.jpg"/>

       <photo caption="White Mountain Peak as seen from the trail 
                       after dropping down a few hundred feet from the observatory. 
                       Note the alpine, almost moon-like landscape of low grasses and rock. 

                       The saddle over Spencer&apos;s left shoulder, at 13,000 feet, 
                       is accessed immediately prior to the 
                       final push up the mountain&apos;s southeast face." 
                  url="White_Mtn_Pk_Spencer_cropped_50.jpg"/>

    </trip_photo_list>

  </trip>

  <page_footer left_link_name="return to California state report page" 
               left_link_url="../california.xml#Mono" 
               rite_link_name="" 
               rite_link_url="">
 </page_footer> 

</photos>

