Hoover Wilderness/ Northern Yosemite June 18th-22nd

[tblock1]

Thanks for the help on our trip, especially to Bill-e-g. We went on our trip and it was absolutely fantastic, lots and lots of snow but no one there. Our original plan was to do a full loop starting Robinson Creek trailhead to Barney lake, Peeler lake, benson lake, rodger's lake, mule pass, and back. But we didnt realize there was snow, so we decided to take it slower. We picked up Yak-tracks at REI on the way (thanks again Bill for recommending those) and stayed at mono village thursday night (got in for free because it we got in and left before they opened their booth haha) and picked up our permit.
1st day: Mono Village to Peeler lake
2nd day: Peeler to Seavey pass
3rd day: Back to kerrick meadow
4th day: Back .25 mile from barney
5th day: back to car

Will put up pictures (we too 500) plus videos and more info later

[bill-e-g]

Very very cool.

While I was out myself I was thinking about you guys. Hoping you
went and had a good time. As I was hiking my butt thru some
delicious sun cups near Matthes Lake I figured that you were
probably doing about the same.
Thought... if they can make it to Rodgers I'll be hugely impressed.
Bummer you couldn't drop down into Benson. Last year it
was the one spot where we saw anyone. (one person).
This year... the PCTers are probably just swearing at the snow.
Seavey and back is sweet. Congrats! Something I RARELY do
I did last year was swim in that "lake" up there. We had
some mosquitos ... I would guess you barely saw any.
(actually we were carried away by mosq. in Slide Canyon and
at Rodgers..)
So... you now know what I do... going early and late has many
HUGE benefits... and doing an out and back is just as nice
as a loop.. and... the issuing people might now know much.

Post a pict. of Peeler frozen, of what Kerrick Meadows looked like,
and the view from Seavey towards Piute Mtn. please.

So glad you enjoyed yourself and posted

[tblock1]

Very very cool.

While I was out myself I was thinking about you guys. Hoping you
went and had a good time. As I was hiking my butt thru some
delicious sun cups near Matthes Lake I figured that you were
probably doing about the same.
Thought... if they can make it to Rodgers I'll be hugely impressed.
Bummer you couldn't drop down into Benson. Last year it
was the one spot where we saw anyone. (one person).
This year... the PCTers are probably just swearing at the snow.
Seavey and back is sweet. Congrats! Something I RARELY do
I did last year was swim in that "lake" up there. We had
some mosquitos ... I would guess you barely saw any.
(actually we were carried away by mosq. in Slide Canyon and
at Rodgers..)
So... you now know what I do... going early and late has many
HUGE benefits... and doing an out and back is just as nice
as a loop.. and... the issuing people might now know much.

Post a pict. of Peeler frozen, of what Kerrick Meadows looked like,
and the view from Seavey towards Piute Mtn. please.

So glad you enjoyed yourself and posted

Yeah actually the problem was the naviagation, we actually couldnt find seavey because the stupid gps was wrong as to where it is, I think it was a flaw on the downloaded map. Actually, me and my friend are both 17 years old, so we could tell when the ranger was giving us the permit that if he could he would stop us. We ended camping day 2 partway into kerrick canyon. We were also worried because the creek, Robinson I guess, was absolutely HUGE and crossing would have been gnarly.



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I'll put up more pictures later and some videos but for now this is one side of peeler

[tblock1]

Peeler lake, day 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpU41qhEPH0

[bill-e-g]

Sweet. Ok, sounds like you made it towards Seavey Pass but didn't
cross Rancheria Creek. Just for the future... for that one I would
have pretty much stayed on the east side of the Creek the
entire way to avoid having to cross it at all.
Just think how it's screaming even further downstream where
the PCT crosses it.
In spring snow melt you really wanna try to be really aware of
exactly where you are b/c you don't wanna be crossing
any snow bridges and fall thru into a body of water.

Anyway, I think you did great. Seems like you used a lot of good
judgement.
Hopefully you can return and do the whole loop.

[tblock1]

Sweet. Ok, sounds like you made it towards Seavey Pass but didn't
cross Rancheria Creek. Just for the future... for that one I would
have pretty much stayed on the east side of the Creek the
entire way to avoid having to cross it at all.
Just think how it's screaming even further downstream where
the PCT crosses it.
In spring snow melt you really wanna try to be really aware of
exactly where you are b/c you don't wanna be crossing
any snow bridges and fall thru into a body of water.

Anyway, I think you did great. Seems like you used a lot of good
judgement.
Hopefully you can return and do the whole loop.

Kerrick Meadow


I'm getting all the pictures from my friend today and will post up a lot more tonight. There were tons of dangerous snow bridges that you could hear the water running beneath you, on some you would fall 5-10 feet and be swept under 100's of yards of underground river if you didnt act quick.

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[bill-e-g]

Cool.

For fun...
Here's Upper Kerrick Meadow on July 1, 2007:

[jestein]

Thanks for the post and pics. I have a trip planned starting 7-10 out of Mono Village->Slide Canyon->Matterhorn Peak->Horse Creek.

I spoke with the ranger you showed your snow covered peeler pictures to and he left us feeling we should reconsider our route.

I would love to see more of your photos from the recent trip. Do you have them posted anywhere?

Thanks,
john

[bill-e-g]

If you haven't read this you may want to
(this is where he asked about the route)

http://www.yosemite.ca.us/forum/viewtop ... highlight=

You may want to go up Horse Creek first...

I do have a zoom shot of Matterhorn taken from above Elizabeth
from 2 weekends ago if you want to see that.

[bill-e-g]

It's #19 here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/yosemite.chick.on/Matthes

(that was June 20th)

[jestein]

We are planning a 4 day loop. Our thinking was Matterhorn peak on the last day (lighter packs) would be nice as opposed to killing ourselves on day one. However, I have also heard the horse creek route is a better ascent with SW slope being the better descent route.

[orion]

here's a look down slide from the matterhorn two weeks ago:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/37299241

horse creek is a great hike right now. the mosquitos are starting to show up, but they weren't too bad.