Tahoe: Susie Lake via Pacific Crest Trail

SLT01

Dist: 8.10 mi	Points: 162	Calories: none
Time: none	Speed: 0.0 mph	Pace: 0:00 / mi

SLT001

Location: 38.835384°, -120.044670°
Head W from Echo Lake Resort past Lower and Upper Echo Lakes through pines. Flagpole Peak to N

SLT002

Location: 38.847366°, -120.078781°
R @ Y; spur to L leads down to public lake access

SLT003

Location: 38.847382°, -120.087280°
L @ T; enter Desolation Wilderness

SLT004

Location: 38.848835°, -120.095200°
Turn R @ Y and climb 400 ft. above headwall of Tamarack Lake

SLT005

Location: 38.852932°, -120.102867°
L @ T; skirt E fringe of wildflower-packed Haypress Meadows

SLT006

Location: 38.854965°, -120.108467°
R @ Y. Spur trails lead to side lakes in Desolation Valley; stay with PCT

SLT007

Location: 38.856567°, -120.112785°
Keep R @ Lucille Lake Trail junction, bearing WNW

SLT008

Location: 38.857632°, -120.118347°
R @ Y

SLT009

Location: 38.859650°, -120.120918°
Go L; bear NW into lake-fi lled Desolation Valley (once-empty basin was fl ooded for Sacramento's water supply)

SLT010

Location: 38.864468°, -120.128448°
Lake Aloha: Warm, shallow water, islands, and fi ne photo ops over the rugged, snow-clad Crystal Range. To continue, go R and ascend E shoreline past Lake Le Conte

SLT011

Location: 38.876301°, -120.146164°
R @ T, heading E past ponds and a misty 20-ft. waterfall

SLT012

Location: 38.878250°, -120.139915°
N shore of Heather Lake set in a deep bowl

SLT013

Location: 38.879082°, -120.123932°
Susie Lake sits beneath crimson, metamorphic Jack's Peak (9,856 ft.). Camp on NW shore; retrace route to trailhead

Above the lake

Location: 38.872940°, -120.142929°
Two 2006 PCT thru-hikers climb the rocky hillside of Lake Aloha's northern shore. ©Jack Haskel

Crystal Divide

Location: 38.868317°, -120.136765°
Lake Aloha's shallow waters shimmer in front of the rugged, snowy Crystal Divide. ©Jack Haskel