Noble Lake

A pretty glacial lake on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) about 6 miles (10 km) south of the Ebbetts Pass trailhead, where California SR 4 crosses the Sierra Nevada. The PCT can be seen crossing the slope immediately across the lake. A patch of snow below and to the left of the small skylined conical peak is now gone, here at the end of September (outline). The snow patch was there at the beginning of August (insert at top left). We came in to Noble Lake from the north in early August, and then for this trip came in from the south, over a saddle that's just off the pic to the right. Elevation of the lake is just under 9000 ft/2743 m. There are some other views of the lake in the adjacent photos.