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8.18 miles from the Lower Ford of Summit City Creek to the Bee Gulch Trail Junction

North: Lower Ford to Telephone Gulch                Click Red Dots                All Summit City Creek               SouthLake Alpine

Lower Ford of Summit City Creek to Bee Gulch

North: Lower Ford to Telephone Gulch                Click Red Dots                All Summit City Creek               SouthLake Alpine

Location: The Mokelumne Wilderness on the Tahoe to Yosemite Trail

Main Features: This set of maps depict the Tahoe to Yosemite trail from Telephone Gulch in Summit City Creek all the way South to the trail junction for Bee Gulch on Mount Reba above the East side of Lake Alpine. The black trail dots with red centers represent the unmaintained or unmarked trails through this section of the Tahoe to Yosemite Trail.

the Summit City Creek trail segment represents a big chunck of the unmaintained trails that compose the Classic Tahoe to Yosemite Trail between Fourth of July Lake and Camp Irene. Once you intersect with the Summit City Creek Trail and turn South, down river, you will travel through an unmaintained section of the trail until you reach Camp Irene on the North Fork of the Mokelumne River. Between your junction with Summit City Creek down to Telephone Gulch, the well-trodden trail bed is discernable and fairly easy to follow despite many fallen trees and over-growth. (As of July 2009.)

From Telephone Gulch to the open rock area before the first ford of Summit City Creek the going is pretty rough. There are very dense forests of Sword Ferns that have large networks of exposed, elevated roots. The roots want to trip you, so the Swords can impale you. There are wide sections of downed forest (beetles and/or blight) and washouts. These areas are hard to travel across due to the occassional necessity to climb over downed trees and push through dense overgrowth, while looking for sign of the trail.  After all that you come to an exposed section of fine granite before reaching the first ford of Summit City Creek.

This beautiful section of exposed rock is well ducked, and leads to the first ford. After fording, turn right to follow the route...

 

 

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Trail Guide: El Dorado National Forest information

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Physical location: Between Highway 88 at the Carson Pass to Highway 4 at Lake Alpine

 

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Wilderness Area: Mokelumne in the El Dorado

Molkelumne Wilderness

Wilderness Area: Mokelumne in the Stanislaus

Molkelumne Wilderness

USGS Map Information

Map Name: Mokelumne Calif.-Nev., 1979, USGS 7.5 minute Topographic

 

Compass Offset: Magnetic North is 16 and 1/2 degrees East of True North

 

scale: 1:24 000

Contours: 40 feet

The Tahoe to Yosemite Trail between Carson Pass and Lake Alpine

Backpacking permitting authority: The El Dorado National Forest on the North Side of the Mokelumne Wilderness on Tahoe to Yosemite Trail at the Carson Pass on Highway 88. The Stanislaus National Forest administers the South side of the Mokelumne Wilderness, if you are enterning the Wilderness from the Lake Alpine area on Highway 4.

National Forest: You are in the El Dorado NF from Carson Pass, until you reach the ford of the Mokelumne River at Camp Irene. Here you depart the El Dorado NF and enter the Stanislaus NF. The Mokelumne Wilderness continues within the Stanislaus NF up to the top of Mount Reba. At the top of Mount Reba you exit the Mokelumne Wilderness.

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North: Lower Ford to Telephone Gulch                             SouthLake Alpine

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Lower Ford: 5540 feet

Camp Irene: 5820 feet

Mount Reba: 8720 feet

 

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Guide Index North: TYT Carson Gap to Lake Alpine

Guide Index South: Highway 4 to 108

Map Section: Echo Summit to Lake Alpine on a map: Click Red Dots for trail guide pages.

Trail Guide Pages: Summit City Creek & Lake Alpine

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