Trip Notes - Dana Meadows to Mono & Parker Passes and Spillway Lake

Photo: Jackie & Dave at Parker Pass Lake.

Photo Album #105.

Weather: Mid-sixties with interesting clouds.

Trail head: One mile west of Tioga Pass at Dana Meadows.

Fee: $20 per car Yosemite Entrance Fee or annual pass.

Description: Moderate to Strenuous approximately 12-mile partial cross-country, partial loop with a 1400 ft. elevation change.

Elevations: Trail head is 9700 ft., Mono Pass is 10,600 ft.,

Parker Pass is 11,100 ft.
Flora: Queen's Crown, Alpine Flame, Rabbit Bush, Sticky Cinquefoil, Alpine Gold.

Fauna: Mule deer.

Dinner: Pot luck at the trail head.

Participants: (13) Michael Booth, Barb Hayes, Dave & Jackie Lederle, Ralph Medema, Don Mulcahy, Stefanie Rochow, Nina Shah, Karen & Patrick Wall, Nick, Eric & Becky Teberg.

Comments: This was going to be a Parker Pass up and back, but at lunch time at Mono Pass we decided to cross-country to the mines, miner's cabins and over the ridge to Parker Pass and Parker Pass Lake. Returned via Spillway Lake. Splendid day!