Inyo National Forest - North Lake to Pine Creek - July 10-14, 2019
Trip Logistics July 10 - 14, 2019 August 25 - 31, 2019 Inyo National Forest - North Lake to Pine Creek Total mileage - Approximately 27 miles not including day hikes July Photos August Photos Route 2019 was a banner snow year and it resulted in lots of late season snowpack and a late backpacking season…sort of. I was leading a Sierra Club trip in August of 2019 and I wanted to scout the route before I took the group out. I had done South Lake to North Lake a number of years before so I knew the Hopkins Basin area. This route would be going from North Lake to Pine Creek…Pine Creek trailhead was an area I had no familiarity with. In 2019 I ended up doing this route twice once in mid-July and again at the end of August as well as a short overnight to Muriel Lake from North Lake. These were the only backpacking trips I did the summer of 2019 because of the snowpack and other commitments. Instead of writing separate reports for all of these trips I have just written one with the primar