I day hiked up to Mono Pass on Sunday July 2 to get an idea of conditions. After a knee deep crossing of the the Dana fork it was easy to follow the trail up to Mono pass. There were a few patches of snow but nothing that obscured the trail for any considerable distance. The use trail that follows Parker Pass Creek up to Spillway Lake has much more snow and is harder to follow than the main trail. I fished a couple of the nearby lakes and landed several small brookies and a decent brown that was a pleasant surprise. Mosquitoes were not yet out in force.
Mono Pass
heading back toward Tioga Rd.
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Re: TR: Mono Pass day hike July 2
Thanks for posting this TR and pictures VF!
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I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.
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Have a safer backcountry experience by using the HST ReConn Form 2.0, named after Larry Conn, a HST member: http://reconn.org
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Re: TR: Mono Pass day hike July 2
One of my favorite areas! Nice to see that it is melting out already. Maybe I'll backpack up there toward the end of July.
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Nice brown trout! way odd and unexpected, huh?
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Awesome !
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Nice brown---I'm glad to see the browns are up and about there. Funny thing about that lake is that I caught a number of browns there but they were all small (brookies I caught there actually ran a tad bigger), and certainly much smaller than yours. You're really getting out and calibrating the thaw for us. It's interesting to compare up and down the Sierra, looking at what you found here compared to what you ran into 5 days later up in Emigrant, for example. Thanks for the reports.
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Judging by the signage and unfamiliar place names, this must be the Mono Pass in Yosemite. I'm only familiar with the Mono Pass between Rock Creek Lake and Lake Edison.
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