2002-EchoPeaks

trips

Images by: Ron Karpel

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On Echo Peak #7

When the Sierra Nevada where under construction, they have received a huge order of summits. Since the mountains where those summits were destined have not been completed yet, they have stockpiled the summits in Tuolumne Meadows, and delivered them one by one to their mountains. Labor disputes have slowed the work, and a world war and a change in attitude brought the construction to a permanent halt. Nine summits remain waiting to be delivered until this very day, and were left standing on the ridge line circling Budd Lake. The mountains which haven't received their summits are known today as 'piles of rubbles'.

Location: Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park
Photographer: Ron Karpel
Email: ronny@karpel.org
Phone: 415-987-5109
Date: June, 2002
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