Rae Lakes Loop May 22, 2016

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

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.

Curse you autocorrect haha

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

There’s still 10 feet of snow up there.

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+.

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