Mt. Tyndall and Wallace Basin 2009

One day of moving camp between two camps where we spent two nights each.  The objective today was to avoid losing too much altitude as we left Wallace Creek and traversed over to Wright Creek and Wright Lakes.  We were fairly successful at this, with the most difficult parts being sections of talus around the southwest ridge of Mt. Barnard.

Journal Entry: We awoke to a cloudless morning, packed up our 2-night camp, and headed toward Wright Lakes.  We contoured around the ridge connected to Mt. Barnard, mostly was easy walking with a few sections of talus.  Dropped down to the large lower Wright Lake, then went upstream toward the highest lake at 12000 ft.  Found a lateral moraine that took us most of the last stretch to the lake, arrived around 4:00 and found a campsite.  Tomorrow we plan to climb Mt. Tyndall, and go over Tyndall Col the following day.  Tyndall Col looked steep at first, but now with shodows it looks better.  We do have another option if we decide not to go that way.  A few small clouds today starting around 2, but we see none now at 6pm.