Topo of this week's route from Lower Echo Lake in the bottom right. This was mostly on the PCT/TRT until the eastward bailout section that was on a combination of secondary trails and the TYT.
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Parked in the upper Echo Lakes parking after driving out from Mountain View and stopping down at the ranger station to pick up my backcountry permit. Nice and cool for the 9am start.
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Desolation wilderness trailhead sign near the boarding area for the Echo Lake water taxi. Most of the folks at the trailhead were taking the taxi.
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The trail started on the other side of the spillway at the end of the lake.
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Tahoe Rim Trail trailhead sign. (Text readable in the full size version)
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This would normally be a nice view of South Lake Tahoe with the lake beyond, but there was a depressing amount of smoke from the central CA fires. No lake view today.
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07/10/2008 09:11 AM
The trail followed the lakeshore west, staying a hundred yards or so above the water. Passed a bunch of dayhikers on this leg.
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Looking out toward the far shore of the lake. The taxi motored out and back while I was enroute.
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07/12/2008 03:19 PM
Some cabins below (and on the far shore) and I think that is Ralston Peak past the end of the lake.