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Trail Guide Supplement
Supplements to the Lake Tahoe to Mount Whitney Trail Guide. Pages posted by backpackers to supplement the Trail Guide's descriptions.

Backpacking Woods Lake
This is the Comments, Questions and additional information Page for the Tahoe to Yosemite Trail's Woods Lake Trail Guide Page. Post comments and questions about Woods Lake through the Comments link above, or at the bottom of the page.

Carson Gap Decision: Tahoe to Yosemite or Pacific Crest Trail to Highway 4
At the Carson Gap you decide upon continuing South on the Tahoe to Yosemite or the Pacific Crest Trails. The Pacific Crest Trail will take you from Carson Pass to Ebbetts Pass on Highway 4, while the Tahoe to Yosemite Trail connects the Carson Gap with Lake Alpine.
The trail guide index allows you to investigate and compare both routes through maps, mileages, and trail guide pages with pictures and videos.

Raymond Peak to Ebbetts Pass on the Pacific Crest Trail
This page is set up for backpackers to post comments and questions about the section of the Pacific Crest Trail between the Raymond Lake trail junction and Ebbetts Pass.
Trail Guide Page: Raymond Lake Junction to Ebbetts Pass

Hiking Eastern flank Raymond Peak, Mokelumne Wilderness on the Pacific Crest Trail
Hiking the Eastern flank of Raymond Peak in the Mokelumne Wilderness on the Pacific Crest Trail
Trail Guide Page: Mokelumne Wilderness Boundary to Raymond Lake Junction
Trail and Terrain

Backpacking the Pacific Crest Trail: Blue Lakes Road to the Mokelumne Wilderness
Backpacking the Pacific Crest Trail: Blue Lakes Road to the Mokelumne Wilderness.
Trail Guide Page: Blue Lakes Road to the Mokelumne Wilderness Boundary

Backpacking Forestdale Divide across The Nipple to Blue Lakes Road on the Pacific Crest Trail
Backpacking Forestdale Divide to the Blue Lakes Road
Trail Guide Page: Hiking Forestdale Divide to Blue Lakes Road

Backpacking the PCT between Carson Pass across Forestdale Creek to Forestdale Divide
Carson Pass South past Elephant Back
Trail Guide Page: Carson Pass to Forestdale Divide

Backpacking Carson Pass hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
The Carson Pass sits on Highway 88 just South of the Lake Tahoe Basin.
See the Carson Pass trail guide page for more information about Carson Pass for long distance High Sierra Backpackers.
A google road map of Carson Pass is at the bottom of this page. I also have a page up about free car camping near Carson Pass.

Kennedy Canyon Trail Junction Options, from the Southern flank of Leavitt Peak
Looking South down at the Kennedy Canyon trail junction from the Southern Flank of Levitt Peak.
Southbound backpackers have the option of continuing South, over Big Sam into the Emigrant Basin. For backpackers continuing South to Tuolumne Meadows, you will cross the Emigrant Basin to enter Yosemite through Bond Pass, below which you will rejoin the Pacific Crest Trail in Jack Main Canyon. Let's check out the maps and trail guide.

Backpacking Considerations on mileage, food, and physicality
Considering mileage, food, and physicality Calculations on the trail









