Hiking Trails and Trips
Trips
The views from Cherry Canyon were spectacular this fine winter day.
This is a clean version of the gps track for the Three Points Loop hike. Wanderings and data loss have been smoothed out, and points have been minimized to every 50 ft. Although this is not an exact recording of my hike, this is better to download into your gps than the raw track.
This trek is about seven and a half miles, starting from the Three Points parking lot in the LA Crest, scooting along the ridge on the East side of the 2 highway with breathtaking views of Devil's Canyon, cuts over to Chilao Flats, and follows the Silver Moccasin trail back to Three Points.The route here is a raw file of my trip with some wandering included. No map that I've studied accurately depicts...
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...
