Signage to Warren Lake, located near Devils Oven Lake, is initially quite good. Credit: Inga Aksamit
- Signage to Warren Lake, located near Devils Oven Lake, is initially quite good.
- Tunnel allows hikers to pass under busy Highway 80.
- Author stands in a field of corn lillies.
- Steve Mullen crosses the first of many snow fields--in August!
- Sweeping views are one of the many attractions of this hike.
- Lupine and mule ears blanket the slopes.
- Castle Peak is visible from most of this hike.
- Round Valley Ridge is visible in the background.
- Frog Lake
- The peaks of the high Sierra remain flaked with snow deep into summer.
- More wildflowers.
- More snowfields.
- If only there wasn't another big ascent before us.
- Close up view of the Round Valley Ridge.
- The snowfields get larger the further we got on the hike.
- Finally, the scramble down to Devils Oven Lake.
- Descending deeper into the valley.
- Rugged terrain surrounds Devils Oven Lake.
- Devils Oven Lake--it really does exist.
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