Hoover Wilderness - Virginia Lakes to East Lake - 09/03 - 05, 2016
Trip Logistics • When - September 3– 5, 2016 • Hoover Wilderness – Virginia Lakes to East Lake • Total Mileage – Approx. 14 miles (not including layover) Pictures With only 3 days and dreams of another Eastern Sierra trip before the end of my high sierra-backpacking season it meant one place – Hoover Wilderness. The year before I done a trip out of Virginia Lakes over to Yosemite and I loved the terrain and figured we could do a different trip out of Virginia Lakes. Given the limited time we had we figured we’d head over to East Lake do a layover day and some day hiking in the area. After a filling breakfast at the Walker River Lodge we headed up to the trailhead. I wasn’t super in a hurry because it was a typical cold early fall morning. It was a beautiful day and we head a wonderful hike. The trail winds it way up through sparsely covered forest. The thing I love about this area are the colors of the rock – yellows, reds, oran