Paired with Wotan's Throne for the Nordic mythology theme. This was considerably harder than my research led me to believe. I suppose I'm still getting used to the larger scale of the Sierra peaks versus the LA area mountains.

After a start later than I would like, I went straight up from Mirror Lake. After the initial annoying skirt around the lake itself, it's a lot of steep slog interspersed by a couple sections with bit of rock. The "crux" is the final crest just below the summit. I went up to a notch where I felt there there must have been a couple class 4 moves which had me gripped not about up but on the thought of down climbing them, and rightly so. Otherwise the climbing was admittedly fun, but it's one of those where you can easily veer into class 5 or cliff out on the return. Finally you need to get over to the North side where it's more obvious and easy to the summit and register.

I get the impression that the other side from the North Fork trail is more straightforward so I'd like to try that at some point.