TYT & PCT
Echo Summit
to
Lake Alpine

Long view topo map of our TYT route through Meiss, CPMA, and Mokelumne Wilderness to our next resupply at Lake Alpine on Highway 4.

Also shows the PCT from Echo Summit to Lost Lakes near Blue Lakes.

PCT
map index

The 7.5 maps provide high detail.

The 30 min maps promote understanding the trail in broad context of the local terrain.

Topo Maps
North & South

Topo Maps Index North Map Index PCT & TYT Meeks Bay to Echo Summit Maps	Topo Maps Indexes South
	Map Indexes TYT Carson Gap to Lake Alpine	Index PCT Carson Pass to Ebbetts Pass
Maps North	Maps South
South Desolation Region Backpacking Map Lower Echo Lake Trailhead to Echo Summit	Carson Pass Region Backpacking Map 7.5 min Mokelumne Wilderness Backpacking Map 30 min

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Map Credit

U.S. Geological Survey
Department of the Interior

The
USGS

Get your free USGS topo hiking maps
from the

USGS MAP LOCATOR

I fully support the USGS, the NWS, and even NASA...

Map Information

Map Symbols

Online and Trail Maps

High Sierra Backpacking Map
Information and Assets

Backpacking Map Information and Instruction

USGS Map Information

USGS Map Symbols

Online and Trail
Backpacking Maps

Decimal-Degree
Conversion Tool

USGS MAP LOCATOR
Free USGS Maps for Downloading

Navigation Page

Astronomical Information

Navigation Videos

Map Tools Tutorials
(excellent map tools too)

Mapology
Those squares breaking the USGS maps up into grids are the Universal Transverse Mercator / Military Grid Reference System, otherwise commonly known as UTM.

What's important for our general reference purpose is that each side of a square is 1000 meters, or a Kilometer.

From my point of view that is 1093.6 yards or .62 of a mile.

Diagonal: 1414.22 meters, if my trig is correct.

That converts the diagonal distance into 4,639.8 feet or .88 of a mile.

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Backpacker Forums

Have a great Sierra Nevada trip or story to relate? A fine piece of gear? Or gear that failed?

Post it on
TahoetoWhitney.Org

Above we come to the Front Page of the High Backpacking Trails and Topics Forums. Below we break the forums down into categories:

High Sierra Trails

High Sierra Topics

The Trails Forum acts as your place to put up input, comments, relate your experiences, or ask questions about each segment and spot along the length of our combined TYT-PCT-JMT trails.

The Forum is your place to supplement the trail guide.

Anyone can post text comments in the existing forums, but only members can post up new topics, along with images, maps, and formatting.

Become a Member

If you have experiences, comments, questions, or pictures and videos of the Tahoe to Yosemite and Pacific Crest Trails through the Meiss Country Roadless Area from Echo Summit to Carson Pass, post up here as an unknown hiker or as a member.

More, and more recent information is good!