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henness ridge drive

Postby beerforcat@comcast.net » Sat Nov 24, 2007 2:58 pm

Hi everone,

I was looking at Google earth for a possible backpacking trip in May an saw henness ridge drive. I have not seen any mention of this road in backpacking guides and online backpacking resources. The I was wondering if there is trail head parking on the road(if there is no snow)? Any one packed out from the road?
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Re: henness ridge drive

Postby dan » Sat Nov 24, 2007 11:40 pm

beerforcat@comcast.net wrote:I was looking at Google earth for a possible backpacking trip in May an saw henness ridge drive. I have not seen any mention of this road in backpacking guides and online backpacking resources. The I was wondering if there is trail head parking on the road(if there is no snow)?


I never backpacked on the road, but skied part of it in Winter. It's a closed dirt road (the part east of Highway 41). There's room for a few cars off the pavement, and there's a paved parking lot a quarter mile north or so at Chinquapin (junction with Glacier Point Road).

The part I skied in Winter was from the top of the ski area (Tempo Dome) down Strawberry Creek ski trail (unmarked, unmaintained), then skied out on the relatively-flat dirt road.

I know some people who backpacked to the end of the road at Deer Camp (Empire Meadow) and continued on to Chilnualna Fall then ended up at Wawona. Personally, I consider it kind of boring--lots of overgrown thick white fir forest. I understand there's some fine sugar pine stands back there, but I haven't seen them first-hand. There may be ruins of the old ranger station at Deer Camp (I'm not sure if it's well-preserved or just a pile of rotting logs).

Other low-country areas to consider are Chilnualna Fall (although it's a bear of a hike--lots of uphill from Wawona), Tuolumne Grove and beyond (may be too close for a backpack), the old, original Big Oak Flat Road staring at Tamarack Campground or Foresta Junction and head to El Capitan (and beyond to Yosemite Fall or return), and Hetch Hetchy area.
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Re: henness ridge drive

Postby beerforcat@comcast.net » Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:42 am

dan wrote:
Other low-country areas to consider are Chilnualna Fall (although it's a bear of a hike--lots of uphill from Wawona),


Thats what i was hoping to avoid the climb up that way. I was hoping i could drive to the end of the road and hike out from there to the chilnualna lakes there by starting at 6600 ft instead of 4200 ft.
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