Looking for suggestions for campsite. Bishop Pass . out Taboose

[Scott Smith]

Hi All:

Looking  for advise on campsites along our 8 Day journey..

good news… 7 nights on the trail..  trip

thinking 1st night at spearhead lake

last night .. Campsite on east side of taboose pass

Suggestions on the in between part would be greatly appreciated !

btw.. We r in our mid 60s  so it would be pretty much a hike .. set up camp .. Have a cocktail.. Scenario

( e.g. No cross country side trips, etc )

Thanks !!

 

 

[Ray Found]

Hahaha, I just started looking at this route myself. Seems like a good way to get to that area without messing with going in over taboose.

 

Not much for nice campsites at spearhead(most of the flat areas you see surrounding the lake on topomaps are pretty marshy)… additionally, it is trivially close to the trailhead (I daytrpped it the other day).

I’d suggest pushing up closer to the pass(bishop Lakes), or into Dusy Basin, for your first evening.

 

Either way, dusy basin is legendary beautiful. Rainbow lakes (offtrail, adjacent) also seems like it could have some incredible views, especially sunset, and looks like pretty simple off trail work.

 

[Anonymous]

If you are exiting via Taboose, be prepared for a real grinder on the descent. It will challenge your mid 60 legs as no other trail that I know of, with the possible exception of the Sheperd Pass trail. The only bivy that I would call decent is where Taboose Creek flattens out below a waterfall at about 10,000′ or so. It is in a copse of pine trees about 100 yards south of the trail. The surroundings are beautiful, and you are still high enough to avoid the stifling heat rising up from Owens Valley in the afternoon. It is usually hot enough to make the bivies at the last stream crossing and first stream crossing rather unpleasant, definitely not the kind of places you’d want to kick back with a cocktail and enjoy your surroundings after a hard day on the trail.

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