Visitors are creating significant resource damage by trying to avoid the snow in this section. The south side of the pass has one snow field covering several switchbacks. Upper Ottoway lake is still partially snow covered. Red Peak Pass still retains significant snow.Trails maybe challenging to follow in the Red Fire footprint.The trails are mostly clear, with incidental wet and/or muddy sections.The Pika Fire near North Dome has some trail closures and smoke impacts.Trails are mostly clear, with periodic wet and/or muddy sections.Bring multiple pairs of socks for each day of your trip to maintain proper foot health, putting on dry socks when you reach your camp each night. It is often easier to stay on the trail and get your feet wet than finding multiple alternate paths off or around the trail. Stay on the trail instead of creating side trails, causing long lasting resource damage. Trails are wet and muddy in many locations in the park and may have sections of flowing or standing water on them. Be prepared for rain and plan ahead for thunderstorm activity. Thunderstorms, in addition to lightning, can bring locally heavy rain and high winds.Closely monitor the weather forecast for the next week for up to date weather predicitions. There have been consisent thunderstorms this past week and those are forecasted to contine into next week along with the renaments of Hurricane Hilary potentially entering the area, bringing relatively rare summer rain. Mosquitoes have subsided somewhat but are still plentiful, particularly at the highest elevations. Creeks have receded and can be crossed, but some may still require a wade. Overall trails are snow free, with some wet & muddy sections and areas of tree downfall. After the historic winter of 2022-2023, conditions have stabilized. It is interesting looking at the profile of this descent hike as it is an almost perfectly even descent in terms of slope angle, slowly but steadily dropping you about 2700 feet.As we pass mid-summer, conditions are finally beginning to look like summer. The rest of the hike out was a number of endless switchbacks that very evenly take you down to the John Muir Trail junction. There is a hard right turn in this area that must be caught as the trail swings west around a rocky point at the southwest end of Clouds Rests long southern summit ridge. After the last of a handful of large switchbacks the Forsythe Trail joins in again and then its one big long swing down to about 9000 where the trail opens up out of the trees for a moment. After the first 200-300 feet the trail begins to even out into switchbacks. Matt and I had remembered doing some of this under deep snow patches in 2011. As we began to descend off the summit we found the trail to be a fairly steep rock staircase which we took with some caution in getting started. All we had left for today was to descend as far as the JMT junction to find a backcountry campsite. We spent 30+ minutes on the summit taking it all in and knowing we weren't in any hurry to be anywhere. The steep stairs heading down the south side
Panoramic views of Tenaya Canyon and Yosemite Valley So it was this morning, we hopped a few of the rocks and a log across what was a minor stream and we were off.Ī little friend that found us on the summit This year we actually scouted that out on our drive home from Tuolumne Meadows the day prior, and found it was nothing of concern.
One of the typical concerns in leaving from Sunrise Lakes TH is the water level of the outlet from Tenaya Lake. We had our packs already to go, so it was just a pit stop at the trailhead and we were on the trail. We had just one car for our group of 3 and with a hike from the Tioga Road to Yosemite Valley the vehicle had to reside somewhere.Įarly on a Tuesday morning we hopped the shuttle bus at 8am at Curry Village and it dropped us off at the Sunrise Lakes TH a few minutes late at around 10:20am. We were fortunate that the DNC Tuolumne Meadows Hiker's Shuttle decided to start early this year and was even running on weekdays which helped us out. There are a few options of shuttling oneself up to Sunrise Lakes TH but most don't start til July (usually because of the snowpack). In planning this year's attempt we were left with one hurdle: how do we get to the trailhead? This year, the snowpack and the roads would work in our favor. That left us scrambling for new plans in 2011. We would have attempted it then except the Tioga Road was still closed to everyone when we were visiting.
We actually conceived of this hike back in 2011 on our previous trip. This hike began a 3-day backpacking trek for us with Clouds Rest not really even being the main objective. Trip Report Trail: Sunrise Lakes Trailhead > Clouds Rest
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