Here are files for planning a trip to Taboose Pass May 5 2007, in the Sierras.

See the National Weather Service's 7 Day Forecast for Taboose Pass here.

Cardinal Mountain, 4083 meters high, can be climbed via Taboose Pass, or directly up the east ridge from Red Lake Creek up a trail to Stecker Flat and up the east ridge. Should all be class 2, snow permitting. Striped Mountain (13,120'+) and Goodale Mountain (12,790') are also said to be class 2 from Taboose Pass.

The most relavent USGS topo quads are Mt Pinchot and Split Mountain , and secondarily Aberdeen.png and Fish Springs which are available in my Maps folder along with pieces of all 4 quads put together in TaboosePassMap.png

Here are some links showing how beautiful it would be.

http://www.snwburd.com/bob/challenge/2007/peaks/cardinal Description
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1326840985048552364EjYpBYBeautiful view from Cardinal in the Spring!
http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/archives/sps00126.htm Trip Reports
http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/archives/sps00017.htm Trip Reports
http://www.angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/archives/sps01817.htm Trip Reports
http://www.karpel.org/Ron/Peaks/CardinalMtn00.html picture and links for Cardinal Mountain
http://www.climber.org/TripReports/1996/160.html Trip Report
http://www.climber.org/TripReports/1999/532.html Trip Report
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2001CD/finalprogram/abstract_3720.htm Geology
http://www.geosci.unc.edu/faculty/glazner/AerialTour/SplitMtn/split.html Geology of Cardinal
http://www.geosci.unc.edu/faculty/glazner/AerialTour/SplitMtn/Leg1.html Aerial pictures of Cardinal
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/153960/cardinal-mountain.html Cardinal Mountain web page
http://www.etreking.com/eTreking/Pages/SouthSierraEast.html#TabooseAnchor brief info on Taboose pass and peaks nearby.
http://www.summitpost.org/route/164712/direct-east-ridge.html Eric Lee's east ridge route up Cardinal Mountain in April.
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=36.9994&lon=-118.414&datum=nad27&u=4&layer=DRG&size=l&s=50 map
http://www.climber.org/DrivingDirections/redlake.html - driving directions to Red Lake trailhead, for the trail to Stecker Flat

And here are some pictures I took, some pictures Charles took , and some pictures Steve took.

      Name                               Last modified      Size  Description
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 TabooseDay1-profile.png            2007-05-21 01:39  1.4M  Map or Picture (Portable Network Graphics file)
 BackpackList.xls                   2007-05-15 14:58  1.1M  
 TaboosePassThDrivingWptDOS.txt     2007-04-28 16:59  596   Waypoint+ routes or text files
 RedLakeWPT_DOS.txt                 2007-04-28 16:59  4.6K  Waypoint+ routes or text files
      DrivingRouteRedLakeOrTaboose.wpt   2007-04-28 16:59  5.3K  
 TaboosePass3Peaks.pdf              2007-04-22 11:21   25K  Adobe Acrobat Portable Document
 TaboosePass3Peaks.doc              2007-04-22 11:21   42K  MS Office Word document
 TaboosePassPeaks.doc               2007-04-22 11:20   61K  MS Office Word document
 TaboosePassPeaks.pdf               2007-04-22 11:20   35K  Adobe Acrobat Portable Document
 TaboosePassWeather7dayForecast.URL 2007-04-21 23:35  176   Windows Internet Shortcut
 CardinalMountainMarch29_2007.jpg   2007-04-08 18:07  148K  Picture