[pct-l] Friends to join for short hike

[Bill Holt]

While this is at the upper limit of your range, its quite scenic and the elevations are more moderate. Without a firm date for your arrival permits could be an issue. There are mutiple additional  options besides out and back from Echo or Echo to Donner including Echo to Gilmore and out via Mt Tallac, Echo to Velma Lakes and out at Emerald Bay. Echo to Five Lakes or Granite Chief and out at Alpine Meadows or Squaw Valley etc.

Bill in Incline Village

-----Original Message-----
>From: Pea Hicks <phix at optigan.com>
>Sent: Jan 24, 2007 1:47 PM
>To: Bill Batchelor <billbatch at cox.net>
>Cc: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net
>Subject: Re: [pct-l] Friends to join for short hike
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>Bill Batchelor wrote:
>> 
>> I have a couple friends that are considering joining me for a couple days (I
>> wont allow any longer).  Of course, they want to do it somewhere with the
>> best scenery they can.  They'd like to do some part of the Sierra - or
>> perhaps near Tahoe.  They will be traveling by car from So Cal. So no
>> further north than the Tahoe area.
>
>i'd say go for the desolation wilderness. that's between echo lake 
>(tahoe) and donner pass. should only be snow issues on dick's pass that 
>time of year, but it's no big deal. they'll see some high-sierra type 
>scenery, but it's more accessible and not as strenuous. if they have 
>enough time, i'd recommend going all the way from echo lake to donner 
>pass, as the scenery changes quite a bit in this segment and it's all 
>pretty in between those points. this segment took me three days on my 
>thru-hike, not sure how long it would take your friends, but probably at 
>least four days. they should be able to find a ride back to echo lake 
>without much problem.
>
>girlscout
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