Granite Creek Basin with Olds Mountain

WEST JUNEAU WEEKLY PICTURE

Granite Creek Basin with Olds Mountain

Granite Creek Basin with Olds Mountain.

This picture was taken 3.3 miles E/ENE of the State Capitol which is on 4th Street in downtown Juneau, Alaska. The peak of Olds Mountain, elevation 4,453 feet above mean sea level, is roughly 1-1/2 miles from where the photographer was standing at an elevation of 1,760 feet in Granite Creek Basin. The Granite Creek trailhead is approximately 2 miles up the Perseverance Trail which begins at the end of Basin Road in Last Chance Basin.

Kodachrome 64 Slide by David Kent, Sometime Between
10:50 and 11:15 a.m ADT, Tuesday, September 11, 1984, © 2006