Desolation Wilderness Mapping Information, Miles, and Elevations

Phipps Pass to N Side Aloha Lake
TYT-PCT

12.28 miles

Location          Elevation      Mileage (from Meeks Bay Trailhead)                    

Phipps Pass      8800                8.88

Going Down to Middle Velma Lake from Phipps Pass - 880 feet, 3.44 miles

                          -720                2.62   

PCT Junction             8080                11.5

                               -160                  .82   

Middle Velma            7920               12.32

                               +40                   .10

Going Up to Dicks Pass: +1430 feet, 4.41 miles

Velma Lakes Trail Jnct            7960       12.42

                                           ----              .27

Maggie Pk/Emrld Bay Jnct       7960        12.69

                                           +400         1.17

N. side, Fontanillis Lake          8360       13.86

                                           ----              .67

Al camp #2 Font. Lake             8360       14.53

                                           +120            .65

Maggie Pk/Emrld Bay Jnct #2> 8320       15.18

                                           +910           1.65

Dicks Pass                                 9390        16.83

Backpacking Dicks Pass down to Susie LakeDesolation Wilderness

-1590, 2.93 miles

Map: Phipps Pass to Susie Lake

Dicks Pass                            9390         16.83

                              -1090            1.33      

Gilmore Lake Jnct                  8300           18.16

                              -180                .59          

Hlf Moon/Gln Alpine Jnct        8120            18.75

                              -240            .30      

Glen Alpine Jnct 2                  7880            19.05

                               -80                  .31         

E. side Susie Lake                7800             19.36

                               --                     .40         

W. side Susie Lake              7800            19.76

Map: Aloha Lake

Map: Upper Echo Lake 

Map: Lower Echo Lake

Backpacking Down and Out, (and up and down!)

Susie Lake to Echo Lake Trail Head,

Desolation Wilderness

- 543 feet, 10.95 miles

W. side Susie Lake              7800     19.76

                                  +120             .56       

W. side Heather Lake            7920       20.32

                                 +200        .84    

N. Lake Aloha/Rubicon Jnct   8120     21.16

Meeks Bay to Echo Summit miles and elevations

Also see the Lake Genevieve to Middle Velma Lake, and Middle Velma Lake to Lake Aloha 30 minute Map Series

USGS Map Information

West Map
Rockbound Valley California, 7.5 Quadrangle, 1992

East Map
Emerald Bay, 1992

Compass Offset
Magnetic North
15 1/2 degrees East of True North

scale
1:24 000

Contours
40 Feet

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Backpacking Permitting Authority

Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit

Contact Information

Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit

National Forest

LTBMU

Wilderness Area:

Desolation Wilderness, TahoeWhitney

Desolation Wilderness, the feds.

Physical location:

Desolation Wilderness Region Map

Tahoe to Alpine Trail Guide Index

Meeks Bay trail head

Middle Velma Lake in Desolation Wilderness on the Pacific Crest and Tahoe to Yosemite Trails.

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