When you plan a year in advance, you've gotta be ready for contingencies. We are learning this in a big way this summer as our second hike in a row is being rerouted due to fire. For our September 1 hike we were planning on heading up Clark Fork Rd. and taking the Disaster Creek trail into the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness up to the Pacific Crest Trail. The Donnell Fire has changed all that. We're relieved Highway 108 is open again to through traffic and that Kennedy Meadows is open for business. We're heartbroken over the losses at Dardanelles and the vacation cabins. We're ecstatic that beloved Baker Station and the Bennett Juniper were protected by brave, selfless fire fighters. Thank you, thank you, thank you ALL who worked to keep us safe and informed!
For our September 1 hike, we'll be going up Pinecrest Peak for a different perspective on Pinecrest
Lake and Cleo's Bath (our October hike destination). The rewards of this strenuous 6-mile trip include expansive vistas, gnarled trees, foundation remnants of a long-gone fire lookout, curious glacial erratics and curiouser stacked granite "pancake" boulders.
RSVP via email at the kaad-lp.org webpage or through the Tuolumne County Trailhead Facebook group.
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