Rae Lakes Loop May 22, 2016

[Mike Whitesell]

heres an itinerary I’ve been working on. My permit reservation has been acquired as well. If anyone has other suggestions, please let me know. I want to climb Fin Dome. Any other climbing suggestions since the miles are pretty low each day (well for me that is).

May 22: Bubb’s creek to vidette Meadow, 13.2 miles
May 23: Vidette Meadow to 60 lake basin, 8.2 miles
May 24: 60 lake basin to Rae lakes, 3 miles
May 25: Rae Lakes to Upper Paradise Valley, 12.6 miles
May 26: 8.5 miles to Woods Creek exit trailhead.

[Aaron Sorensen]

Coming from someone who has done the loop 11 times, your itenerary sounds good.

[Cameron M]

You could consider spending your Rae Lakes time on May 23rd, and then spend the day and night in the 60 Lakes Basin on the 24th, exiting off-trail at its north end on the 25th. This keeps you off the heavily trafficked JMT.

FIN dome is a FINE rock.

[Mike Whitesell]

Curse you autocorrect haha

[Aaron Sorensen]

There will not be any JMT traffic the end of May.

There’s still 10 feet of snow up there.

[Lori P]

Yeah, if you aren’t ready for some mountaineering and really high stream crossings, that might be a problem.

There may not be 10 feet of snow by the end of May, but there will be snow, and plenty o snow melt. Just because the road opens at the end of April doesn’t mean you’re getting across Glen Pass. Trailhead is at around 4000 feet. Glen is 11000+.

[Jacob Ziegler]

I was wondering how this trip turned out? We are planning a similar itinerary but clockwise this upcoming holiday weekend.

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