Backpacking Guides and Trips
Trips
This version of Mirror Lake has 3 camps each 2 nights. First two nights in Four Lakes Basin, the next two at Lightening Lake, and the final two in Naturalist Basin on Jordan or any of the lakes in that Basin.Each site offers good day hike possibilities to over 12K, as well as hopefully good fishing opportunities. My guess is we will be by ourselves everywhere except our last night in Naturalist...
Another option for our adventure. In this option we have four camps where we spend either 1 or 2 nights each. Two one night camps are needed to cover the ground necessary to reach the lakes I have targeted, which are just too far a stretch for one day. Each lake camp is by a set of lakes that are listed in a Utah DWR pamphlet as being good trout lakes, so...
This was the first idea I had for an adventure, but I believe it is too challenging at over 70 miles in 7 days. The drive behind this route was to see as much as possible and attempt to put a circuit together so that we did not spend too much time on the same trails.
A waypoint only version of an option to get an idea of where we could go.
In the works for two years this trip was. I knew the moment I hiked out in 2010 that I had to return with my own Eastern friends. More I thought would come, but commitments and availability just got in the way. Turned out well as that left room to invite new people to the adventure, and that is just what I did.April 1st dawned not as cold as originally expected; A...
