Let's see..
the 1st was 9-7-2003 @ 18:40 (the previous evening)
The 2nd was 9-8-2003 @ 16:05 (storm comes rolling in)
The 3rd was 9-8-2003 @ 18:19 (thickest fog I've even seen, 10 minutes later, the picture would have been pointless.)
The 4th was 9-9-2003 @ 10:21 (next morning after a night of rain, snow, sleet, hail, wind and lightning. Had the temperature not been hanging around freezing, but a bit lower, estimate would have been 18 inches of snow.
Incidentally the spot for burying Kiza is probably a couple miles further up the basin, away from the lakes.
Here's another perspective on the location of the camp. You can see the glacial stream emptying into the upper of the 2 Titcomb lakes, with Summer Ice Lake tucked in behind and 500 feet higher to the left of the peak known as "The Buttress". The camp we would be at several days after this photo was taken (from a 12,000 foot gap on a ridge on a shoulder of Fremont Peak separating Indian Basin and Titcomb Basin) would be to the near side of the glacial stream, several hundred yards upstream and blocked from view by the ridge itself. The lakes and camp lie at 10,700 feet, so I'm 1,300 feet above for this shot. The areas of white are not snow cover, but rather glaciers.
I wish the sky would have been more compelling for this shot, but the cloud cover (only slight hints of blue in thin spots in the cloud cover) and lighting conditions that took away the sky probably gave me a few things I couldn't have captured under better sky photography conditions. And yes, the lakes up there really do appear to the eye in that insanely gorgeous color when viewed from higher up.
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