by Dave Miller » Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:26 pm
Bill,
Wow, thanks for the quick response. I do know that Memorial Day will be pretty crazy, but,heck, I have to take the time when I can get it!
Of course, my preference is North Dome and I am planning on hitting Indian Rock and Yosemite Point too. My main thing I'm trying to do is plan for contingencies. It's kind of my nature.
What has drawn me to the Lake Eleanor area is it is mostly below the snow line and also I won't need a Yosemite Wilderness permit, just a forest service permit (if Martin at the Wilderness Permit office is correct).
Thanks for all the good information about the area. Even if we end up at North Dome (hopefully), I would like to get out to Lake Eleanor and vacinity. I don't see Lake Eleanor as our destination, but more as our starting point. Looking at my TOPO software, I see what appears to be the trailhead right next to the Lake Eleanor Ranger Station. It looks like that trail heads along the south side of the lake a bit and turns south towards Miguel Meadow and then heads up Frog Creek. Are there any decent backcountry camping spots in that area? I know that meadow areas in the the spring can be pretty marshy?
You mention that route from 120 is a long one, about much time do you think it would take to travel there from 120?
I am using a canned template for my site: Rounders 4 by Douglas Bowman. I've done a little tweaking with it though to make it wider, but I have more work to do. I found that bahiker dot com also uses the same template. Let me know if you try it and want to make changes to some of the dimensional parameters. I've got a little experience with it.
Thanks again for the time you took to answer my questions. I really appreciate it. I'm always looking for new places (to me) and I think I found one in the Yosemite Forum!