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Backpacking Desolation Wilderness The South End Topo Maps
Lake Aloha to Echo Summit Trailhead
Miles and Elevations
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This trail guide, like the High Sierras, divides itself into ups and downs. Our miles are generally done either going up to the top of the mountain, or we are coming down from the mountaintop into the valley that separates us from the next mountain. Between Meeks Bay and Echo Summit in the Desolation Wilderness along the Tahoe to Yosemite Trail there are 32 miles and two major passes, Phipps Pass and Dicks Pass, measuring at 8800 and 9390 of feet of elevation, respectively. Once we cross Dicks Pass it is almost all down-mountain to the the South end of Desolation Wilderness at Lower Echo Lake and our first resupply at Echo Chalet. Remember this important rule: Every descending route holds many mini-ascents, and every ascent has many mini-descents within its length. Our mileage will very rarely just go up, or just go down. We are going endlessly up and down. It's a rock, river, and forest roller-coaster. |
Backpacker Forums Post it on Above we come to the Front Page of the High Backpacking Trails and Topics Forums. Below we break the forums down into categories:
Anyone can post text comments in the existing forums, but only members can post up new topics, along with images, maps, and formatting. If you have experiences, comments, questions, trip reports, trail conditions updates or pictures and videos of the Tahoe to Yosemite/Pacific Crest Trail from Meeks Bay to Echo Summit, post up here as an unknown hiker or as a member: Trail Segment
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Miles South
Echo Summit to Carson Pass
Miles and Elevations