Lake Canyon
A side canyon of Lundy Canyon in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, just east of Yosemite. Taken from a red metamorphic peak, reached on this occasion from the head of Warren Canyon. Most of the terrain is granite, except for the foreground and reddish rockslides on the nearer slopes, and a distant peak barely visible on the skyline left of center. The largest, intensely blue lake is Lake Oneida; just downstream of it are two large mine tailing piles from the mill of the May Lundy mine. The mine itself was most of the way up the steep talus slope to the left. A few pictures from a different hike to the area of the mine are in my Yosemite album. Some of the lakes are probably impounded by terminal glacial moraines. At one time, mine engineers built a wooden dam at the outflow of Lake Oneida, but it's too leaky to affect anything now.
Lake Canyon
A side canyon of Lundy Canyon in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, just east of Yosemite. Taken from a red metamorphic peak, reached on this occasion from the head of Warren Canyon. Most of the terrain is granite, except for the foreground and reddish rockslides on the nearer slopes, and a distant peak barely visible on the skyline left of center. The largest, intensely blue lake is Lake Oneida; just downstream of it are two large mine tailing piles from the mill of the May Lundy mine. The mine itself was most of the way up the steep talus slope to the left. A few pictures from a different hike to the area of the mine are in my Yosemite album. Some of the lakes are probably impounded by terminal glacial moraines. At one time, mine engineers built a wooden dam at the outflow of Lake Oneida, but it's too leaky to affect anything now.