MAP
INDEX
NORTH

Tuolumne
Meadows
to
Yosemite
Valley

MAP
INDEX
SOUTH

Tuolumne
Meadows
to
Reds
Meadow

REGION
MAPS

Yosemite
Valley
&
Central
Yosemite

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Lake
Tahoe
to
Whitney
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MILES
ELEVATIONS
NORTH

Tuolumne
Meadows
to
Yosemite
Valley

MILES
ELEVATIONS
SOUTH

Yosemite
Valley
to
Lyell
Canyon

ROUTE OPTIONS NOTE

Hiking South from Lake Tahoe to Mount Whitney we've planned and written "The Golden Triangle" into our itinerary.

It adds maybe another five or six days to the duration and maybe an additional sixtly miles of distance and five thousand feet of climbing.

A "standard" Tahoe to Whitney backpacking trip would end our hike South along the combined Tahoe to Yosemite and Pacific Crest Trail at Tuolumne Meadows where we would pick up the combined routes of the John Muir and Pacific Crest Trails.

This section covers our return to the Sierra Crest through Merced Lake and Voglesang to pick up the John Muir and Pacific Crest Trail in Lyell Canyon about five miles South of where we turned down the John Muir Trail to hike down to Yosemite Valley.

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MAP NOTE
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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