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The Echo Lake trail head to the Echo Summit trail head

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Echo Lake trail head to Echo Summit trail head

Echo Lake Trail head to the Echo Summit Trail head

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Echo Lake trail head to Echo Summit trail head

Main Features: Echo Summit marks the end of the first segment of your Backpacking Trip: Meeks Bay Trail head to Echo Summit trail head

 

Mapping Information

 

Mileages

Echo Lake trail head to the Lake of the Woods Trail on the South side of Aloha Lake: 5.95 miles

 

Echo Lake Parking Lot to Highway 50: 1 mile

Echo Lake Parking Lot to Echo Summit: 2 miles

 

Echo Lake Trail Head Mileages

South Side of Aloha Lake: 5.95 miles

Dicks Pass: 13 miles

 

Meeks Bay to Echo Summit

Meeks Bay trail head to Lake Genevieve: 4.71 miles

Lake Genevieve to Middle Velma Lake: 6.67 miles

Middle Velma to Aloha Lake: 7.69 miles

Aloha Lake to Echo Lake trail head: 5.95 miles

Meeks Bay trail head to Echo Lake trail head: 25.02 miles

Meeks Bay trail head to Echo Summit trail head: 27.02 miles

Map Name: Placerville Calif, 1976, 30x60 minute Topographic

 

Compass Offset: Magnetic North is 18 degrees, 34' East of True North

 

scale: 1:100 000

Contours: 50 meters

 

 

Backpacking permitting authority: Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit

National Forest: LTBMU

Wilderness Area: Desolation Wilderness

Physical location: Meeks Bay Trailhead and Highway 89

 

 

Tahoe to Alpine Trail Guide Index

Meeks Bay trail head

 

 

Elevations   More Information

Lake Tahoe: 6226 feet

Meeks Bay Trail head: 6239 feet

elevation rise: 400 meters, or 1312 feet

Trail Guide, Section: Meeks Bay to The Carson Gap

Trail Guide, Segment: Meeks Bay Trail head

Google Map: All Lake Tahoe trailheads

 

Map Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior/USGS

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