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maverick wrote:
After your visit Picket Lake just come back up to the same small
dip in the ridge which gives you easy access to Kaweah Basin.
The dip is at around 10880 ft on the ridge under the word "Creek"
in Picket Creek on a Tom Harrison map.
It really looks like it would be just as easy to cross at PQ Col and find that dip that you refer to in order to find Picket Lake. Would you agree?

At this point in our trip, time is running short. We'll have to start making our way back towards the HST in order to make the trailhead on our deadline. From Picket Lake into Kaweah Basin, what is "must see"...? Got any suggestions for tourists for the eastern side of Kaweah Basin?
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Well if you cross PQ Col youll be going thru Kaweah basin allready
to get to Picket Lake.
Thats why going over Pants Pass and Picket Col to Picket Creek
then back up and over the ridge and into Kaweah basin and out PQ Col
would be like a loop where you would see something different in and out
until you get back to the HST.
Highlights IMO are Picket Lake, the lake with the island and Upper
Kaweah Basin from where you'll see the whole Kaweah Group(good
photo opps).
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By the way you wrote youll be going from Sat-Sat (7nights), right?
Buck, Nine Lakes, Pickett Lake, 2 days Kaweah Basin
Precipice Lake, Buck or alternative.
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maverick wrote:By the way you wrote youll be going from Sat-Sat (7nights), right?
Buck, Nine Lakes, Pickett Lake, 2 days Kaweah Basin
Precipice Lake, Buck or alternative.
You are correct. May take a zero day at Picket Lake leaving only 1 day in Kaweah Basin, but not sure.

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Thanks all for the suggestions. I think I decided to add a few (40 to 50) miles and go from Lodgepole to Roaring River down Cloud Canyon to Lower Junction Meadow up to Tyndall Creek to Charlotte Lake and do Rae Lakes Loop back to Avalanche Pass down Deadmans Canyon to Bearpaw and back to LodgePole. That gets me to do a lot that I haven't seen before without having to do a lot of backtracking.
Next question is - Can I get a resupply at Roads End legally and do they carry backpacking supplies? I have been there once a few years ago and if my memory is correct they carry backpacking supplies (dehydrated meals). I am not sure on the rules of getting off the trail to pick up supplies and whether I need a new permit to get back on the trail again. Thanks all in advance.
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Youll have to hike or hitch a ride to Cedar Grove where the store
does carry a limited amount of supplies.
I would recommend dropping off food in one of the bear boxes at
the backpackers parking lot near the Copper Creek Trailhead at Roads
End on the way to your trailhead at Lodgepole.
Just mark your bags with you initals and a pick up date.
It would be a long detour but at least youll eat according to you liking
and not the stores availability.
You might do this a day before unless you had planned on staying at
the Lodgepole Campground the first night.
No you do not need a new permit.
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