Re: Trip Recommendation for some newbies to the area
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 8:25 am
SSSdave,
Thanks. Since I was called out on some etiquette in my post, I will do the same here. As a native angeleno the term LALA land is not much appreciated. Also, we are training in the snow up here in the San Gabriel mountains so we'll be ready and willing for the challenge!
Best,
C
Thanks. Since I was called out on some etiquette in my post, I will do the same here. As a native angeleno the term LALA land is not much appreciated. Also, we are training in the snow up here in the San Gabriel mountains so we'll be ready and willing for the challenge!
Best,
C
SSSdave wrote:Your best choice as someone in LALA land is to NOT Sierra backpack in early June. Go on a car camping trip to the eastern Sierra.
Well lakes people backpack to in the southern Sierra given an average winter tend to be at too high of elevations to backpack to in June. Everything beyond easy day hiking distance from the Owens is simply too high. There are many more choices north of Yosemite however you two novices are not going to want to drive that far for just a 4 night trip. But if you do Mavericks advice is excellent. And as novices you are not going to want to be tramping through and camping on snow.
So limiting your choices to the south and lower elevations, a more reasonable strategy would be to forget about lakes and hike up one of the major western slope river canyons like from Roads End up either Bubbs Creek or Woods Creek a couple days. Water will be high making fishing difficult. On the other hands there are a lot of trout in those waters.