Trails
Summary
Difficulty
Distance
Mineral King to Eagle Lake
A day hike from Mineral King Valley to Eagle lake and back.
A day hike from Mineral King Valley to Eagle lake and back.
Moderate
6.9 mi/
11.1 km
11.1 km
Mineral King to Monarch Lakes
A day hike from Mineral King Valley to Monarch Lakes and back.
A day hike from Mineral King Valley to Monarch Lakes and back.
Moderate
8.4 mi/
13.5 km
13.5 km
Mineral King to Sawtooth Pass
Sawtooth Pass has a brilliant perspective of Mineral King Valley, Lost Canyon, Monarch Lakes, and Columbine Lake.
Sawtooth Pass has a brilliant perspective of Mineral King Valley, Lost Canyon, Monarch Lakes, and Columbine Lake.
Difficult
11.5 mi/
18.5 km
18.5 km
Guides
Moraine Lake to Kern Hot Spring
Sawtooth Pass has a brilliant perspective of Mineral King Valley, Lost Canyon, Monarch Lakes, and Columbine Lake.
A day hike from Mineral King Valley to Monarch Lakes and back.
A day hike from Mineral King Valley to Eagle lake and back.
Community Trips
Almost every trail from Mineral King is a work out, and this one doesn't disappoint. The Monarch Lakes trail starts at, you guessed it, the Monarch Lakes trailhead parking lot. The trail heads up pretty steeply through a series of long switches until it reaches Monarch Creek in a pretty little grove. The views of Mineral King valley along this stretch are spectacular. The switches after the stream crossing are graded better (in fact...
This is a classic backpacking loop out of Mineral King. Although it is under 30 miles long, this loop is typically done in four days or so since the elevation gain is so extreme (nearly 10k of vertical up and down). No matter which way you do this loop you will have a lot of climbing, but I strongly recommend going counter-clockwise as we did. Otherwise, you'll be climbing Sawtooth Pass on Day...
This was a hiking and fly fishing trip on Labor Day weekend. See a complete report at sandiegohiker.net.
This 5 day trip started in the car accessible alpine valley of Mineral King. The beginning and end of the trip were on good trails, but the majority of the time was spent off-trail, some of which was pretty rugged, especially with a full pack. Like all hikes out of Mineral King it began with a several thousand foot vertical climb to get out of the valley. Immediately after that the route...
Every year we take a pack trip into the Golden Trout Wilderness. This year was a short trip into camp with a couple of day rides following. We rode out of the Blackrock Trailhead, through Casa Vieja Meadows, and up Long Stringer to a camp towards the top. We set up camp, put up highlines, and turned our stock out into the meadow. This is a great area to go into because there is...
This is the second part of our Golden Trout Wilderness trip. A day ride to Cold Measows from Long Stringer camp. In past years this trail has been littered with downfalls and difficult to get through. This year we took saws with us just in case but found the trail to be very passable. Only had to deal with one small tree. We rode down past Indian Head into Red Rock. Up...
Backpacking trip from when I was a scout. Fairly easy hike we did in 5 days.
trip report, pics & videoshail turned us around 700 ft below the summit!
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