Tag: Garnet Lake

Thousand Island Lake Loop via High Trail & Shadow Creek Trail (Ansel Adams Wilderness, CA)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn Ansel Adams Wilderness, California, Strenuous Hikes1 Comment

Thousand Island Lake, Ansel Adams Wilderness, Inyo National Forest, August 2023 Rising prominently above California’s Mammoth Lakes area, the Ritter Range boasts a clutch of spectacular peaks and majestic alpine lakes best reached on a multi-day backpacking adventure. The largest of the lakes is Thousand Island Lake, set in a basin below iconic Banner Peak …

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John Muir Trail Northbound Section 4 – Red’s Meadow to Happy Isles (Ansel Adams Wilderness & Yosemite National Park, CA)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn Ansel Adams Wilderness, California, Strenuous Hikes, Yosemite National Park9 Comments

Garnet Lake, John Muir Trail, Ansel Adams Wilderness, August 2021 Note: This is the fifth in a series of five posts describing the John Muir Trail (JMT), a scintillating, multi-week hike through California’s Sierra Nevada that extends more than 200 miles from Yosemite National Park in the north to Mount Whitney and Sequoia National Park …

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