I was up at Tioga pass and June Lake last week. Would like to give everyone an up date. The flowers are really coming on strong.
This image is from Grants Lake ridge. You take Parker Lake road, 2 miles before parking lot make a left turn up hill. (4x4 or high clearance Vehicle only) Tioga Pass still has a lot of snow.
Looks good, Kyle. I backpacked out of Onion Valley this weekend and saw quite a few blooms on the way up the TH. I'm anticipating a strong wildflower show throughout the High Sierra this summer!
Posted by Cory Freeman on June 22, 2010 at 9:29 PM
Hey.....that's a secret spot! jk I "found" that area and explored it last fall Did you take the road up into the aspens? there's a creek crossing that I bet would be really wet and muddy to get through now, maybe impassable based on the ruts I saw last fall when it was dry.
I didn't realize these were growing up here though; thanks for the heads-up. Nice!
Posted by Robert Dayton on June 22, 2010 at 10:34 PM
Thanks for the update, Kyle.
Posted by Eric A. Rosen on June 23, 2010 at 11:21 AM
Awesome.. I know this spot.. Have not been back to this area since 2002 during flowers..
I will be up there over the 4th for 5 days. How much snow is still around Tioga? pretty covered are the lakes and Tarns still frozen?
Posted by David Senesac on June 24, 2010 at 12:59 AM
Ahh the ridge line beside the Mount W jeep road that ends at the big aspen grove. Balsamorhiza sagittata along with prunus andersonii are about the only showy early species on the sagebrush flanks of that zone of the Sierra mid to late June usefull for foregrounds. Soon increasing paintbrush, mule ears, and sulphur flower among several others, will add to the color with petals of those balsamroot falling. Wander along the top of any of the big rocky moraine ridges and you will find these foregrounds. Actually within a few miles is a sizeable landscape of many acres that if one visits at peak can be absolutely covered densely with balsamroot and mule ears, a yellow sea below the snowy peaks above.
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6 repliesI was up at Tioga pass and June Lake last week. Would like to give everyone an up date. The flowers are really coming on strong.
This image is from Grants Lake ridge. You take Parker Lake road, 2 miles before parking lot make a left turn up hill. (4x4 or high clearance Vehicle only) Tioga Pass still has a lot of snow.
Hope some of you can make it!
Kyle
I didn't realize these were growing up here though; thanks for the heads-up. Nice!
Cory Freeman
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I will be up there over the 4th for 5 days. How much snow is still around Tioga? pretty covered are the lakes and Tarns still frozen?
Sure looks like Grant Lake is pretty full - and I'm sure with more snow yet to melt.
Lon