Time it right, and you’ll witness a valley filled with tons of white, blooming calla lilies right along the Highway 1!
Backpacking Lake Aloha to Mt. Price — Desolation Wilderness, CA
Thousand Island Lake, Ediza Lake, and Iceberg Lake Loop - Ansel Adams Wilderness, CA
Rockefeller Loop - Humboldt Redwoods SP, CA
The Rockefeller Loop is one of the best hikes you can do in Humboldt Redwoods - it's easy, short, and gives you everything you could want in a redwood hike - tall trees, an open under story, and both a river and a creek to relax by. The 7,000 acre Rockefeller Forest is also the world's largest contiguous old growth forest of coastal redwoods.
Backpacking Matlock Lake & Kearsarge Pass — Eastern Sierra Inyo NF, CA
Sunset Trail & Big Laguna Trail Loop - Cleveland NF, CA
Wild Willy's Hot Springs — Mammoth Lakes, CA
Overlook Trail & McWay Falls - Big Sur, CA
North Fork Big Pine Creek (Summer) - Inyo NF, CA
Backpacking Sabrina Lake to Hungry Packer and Moonlight Lakes — Inyo National Forest, CA
Sentinel Dome - Yosemite NP, CA
North Fork Big Pine Creek (Spring) - Inyo NF, CA
For our first backpacking trip of the season, we decided on the North Fork of Big Pine Creek - a beautiful basin of glacier-fed lakes that I have been eagerly waiting to do. Once we got there, I could see why this was a popular destination - the impressive snow-capped peaks towering above all 9 beautiful lakes, great fishing, and ease of access make the North Fork the ideal Sierra hike.
