The failed attempt on Spider brought morale down. In our planning meetings, we had agreed each person would bring a dessert for everyone else and fix it on their assigned night. We had one extra dessert, and, thinking this was the low point of morale (it wasn't) we had two desserts that night: I prepared a cheese cake as the additional treat.

I assured everyone the rock was better around Dome Peak, so we decided to bypass Sentinel, Old Guard and Le Conte. The next day, we made a short stop at Ying-Yang Lakes under Le Conte (pictured) and headed on to White Rock Lakes.