The Ottoway Lakes Loop

Ottoway Lakes Loop Trip

Merced Lake. The hanging valley canyon about mid picture is the Lewis Creek canyon, with Mt. Florence in the background above. Nature is busy trying to fill in this lake and plant a forest. Theodore S. Solomons climbed Mt. Florence in 1897. However, John Muir climbed many peaks in Yosemite for the first time that he never got credit for (FA's were not that important to him).

Turning Merced Lake

The Ottoway Lakes Loop, September 2004

A few minutes of hiking got me to the west end of the lake where I followed the shore around for a ways and looked for camps. Found one fair camp.

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