
Kearsarge Pass Trailhead.

Along the popular Kearsarge Pass Trail.


Entering John Muir Wilderness.

View back toward the trailhead and the road leading up.

University Peak comes into view.

A short section of trail through a boulder field.

Passing Gilbert Lake.

View back toward Gilbert Lake.


Above Heart Lake. A bunch of pretty switchbacks lead up the cliffy face.

Kearsarge Pass visible left of center.

Making my way up to Kearsarge Pass on the nice trail. University Peak visible top right.

Along the big switchbacks leading up to Kearsarge Pass, a view toward Big Pothole Lake.

Close-up toward Big Pothole Lake and University Peak.

Approaching Kearsarge Pass.

Kearsarge Pass, view back the way I came.

Kearsarge Pass, view west into the Sierra.

Kearsarge Pass, view south toward University Peak.

Staring up the south ridge of Mount Gould. There's a social trail.

Along the south ridge social trail.

View back toward Kearsarge Pass.

Some Class 2 boulder-hopping.

Another shot back along the steeper section of the south ridge ascent.

More Class 2 boulder hopping coming up.

View back.

At the final last few hundred feet of ridgeline to the summit. I kept left around these rock outcroppings, and a faint social trail appeared once in a while showing I was going the right way.

On the false summit of Mount Gould, view toward the true summit. Oh boy. I wrapped to the left around it and found a Class 3 route up.

On the north side of the summit block, a bunch of thinky Class 3 moves leading to the summit block, center.

Final move up a crack to the summit block. It's extremely exposed once you get above the crack.

Mount Gould summit, view north.

Mount Gould summit, view south toward University Peak.

Mount Gould summit, close-up southwest. Kearsarge Lakes visible below on the left.
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