Tree, Poison Flat, Carson Iceberg Lake Tahoe to Mount Whitney: Your Backpacking Guide to the High Sierras Yellow Flower
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Trail Segment: All Meeks Bay to Ebbetts Pass Pages Index

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section:Meeks Bay to Ebbetts Pass

Segment: Southbound from Meeks Bay to Echo Summit

route: Tahoe to Yosemite Trail along the Desolation Trail, to the Pacific Crest Trail. Exiting the Desolation Wilderness at Echo Lake Trailhead, entering Meiss Roadless Area at Echo Summit Trailhead

Map: Meeks Bay to Lake Genevieve

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Trail Guide Pages

Finding Meeks Bay: Video/map             

Meeks Bay Trail Head: pictures/ resources/discussion 

 

Desolation Trail Head: video/picture

Desolation Trail: 1st Junction: pictures

 

1st Junction to Lake Genevieve: 1st campsite/ video/pictures

Entered Desolation Wilderness: video/pictures

 

Map: Lake Genevieve to Phipps Pass

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Lake Genevieve: video/pictures

Lake Genevieve: video/pictures

 

Crag Lake: video/pictures

South side Crag Lake: pictures

 

Stony ridge Lake: video/pictures

Stony Ridge Lake II: video/pictures

Stony Ridge Lake III: video/pictures

 

Stony Ridge to Rubicon Lake: pictures

 

Rubicon Lake: video/pictures

 

Phipps Pass: video/pictures

South Side of Phipps Pass: video/pictues

 

Map: Phipps Pass to Lake Aloha

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Pacific Crest Trail Junction: pictures

 

Middle Velma Lake: pictures

South of Middle Velma Lake: video/pictures

 

Fontanillis Lake: pictures

Fontanillis Lake, #2: 2nd campsite/pictures

 
Bayview Trail Junction: pictures
 
Fontanillis Lake to Dicks Pass 1: video/pictures
Fontanillis Lake to Dicks Pass 2: video/pictures
Fontanillis Lake to Dicks Pass 2: The Pass, video/pictures
 
South Side of Dicks Pass: video/pictures
 
Triple Trail Junctions: pictures
 
Susie to Heather Lake: video/pictures
 

Map: Lake Aloha

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Lake Aloha 1, North Side: video/pictures
Lake Aloha 2, Center: video/pictures
 

Map: North Echo Lake

Map: South Echo Lake

Map: All Echo Lake

 
Trail Junctions South of Lake Aloha: pictures
 
Echo Lake I: video/pictures
Echo Lake II: pictures
Echo Lake III: pictures
 
Echo Lake Chalet: pictures
 
Echo Lake to Echo Summit: pictures
Highway 50 Campsite: pictures
Highway 50 to Echo Summit: pictures
 
Echo Summit: video/pictures
Echo Summit II: pictures
 

End of Meeks Bay to Echo Summit trail Segment

 
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