#alpine-lakes
11 trips tagged “alpine-lakes”
Little Lakes Valley
Little Lakes Valley is a chain of emerald lakes threaded beneath the 13,000-foot granite spires of Bear Creek Spire and Mount Morgan, reache…
Lake Aloha via Glen Alpine
Lake Aloha is Desolation Wilderness's crown jewel: a shallow, island-dotted lake spread across granite slabs at 8,116 feet beneath Pyramid P…
Rush Creek to Thousand Island Lake
This out-and-back climbs the Rush Creek drainage from the June Lake Loop to Thousand Island Lake, a granite-bound alpine basin at the foot o…
Duck Pass to Duck Lake
Duck Lake is the easiest true backpacking destination in the Mammoth Lakes area: a 4.75-mile climb past Arrowhead and Barney Lakes and over …
Monarch Lakes
Monarch Lakes is the quickest route to Mineral King's high country: 3.5 miles and 2,000 feet of climbing from the Sawtooth trailhead to a pa…
Sabrina Basin
Sabrina Basin is Bishop's classic two-day trip: a 4.25-mile climb from Lake Sabrina past a chain of blue lakes to a high granite bench benea…
Ten Lakes Basin
Ten Lakes Basin is a pocket of granite-ringed alpine lakes northwest of Tuolumne Meadows, reached by a steady 5.5-mile climb from Tioga Road…
New Army Pass via Cottonwood Lakes
New Army Pass is the classic high route out of Horseshoe Meadow: 4.8 miles past the Cottonwood Lakes to a 12,300-foot saddle beneath Cirque …
Big Pine Lakes
Big Pine Lakes is the classic Palisades backpack: a steady 6.75-mile climb from Glacier Lodge past turquoise lakes to Sam Mack Meadow, in th…
Rae Lakes Loop
The Rae Lakes Loop is a 41-mile circuit through the heart of Kings Canyon National Park that climbs from the Kings River canyon over 11,978-…
North Lake–South Lake Loop
This five-to-seven-day traverse links two classic Bishop trailheads — North Lake and South Lake — into one of the finest big loops in the Si…