Hungry Packer Moonlight & Midnight Lakes Photoset • Tortoise

Hungry Packer Moonlight & Midnight Lakes, CA

	2016-09-11
	30 by Tortoise_Hiker

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Hungry Packer Moonlight & Midnight Lakes, CA

Hiking	15.00 Miles	3,039 AEG

Hiking	15.00 Miles	7 Hrs 52 Mns	1.91 mph
	3,039 ft AEG

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Sabrina Basin Trail 31E01

Lake Sabrina to Hungry Packer Lake

Midnight Lake

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johnlp

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This is another hike out of my Sierra book. It says it's fourteen out and back to Hungry Packer Lake. That was our plan today. From there we would see if we felt like any side trips. The book gives it a 9 for scenery and 4 for solitude.The scenery was great and we did see a fair amount of people. I can see why, this is a cool area with a little less aeg. I agree with johnlp. You could set up a base camp at Blue Lake and do lots of exploring in the area. The terrain on this hike had a great variety and kept your exploring side intrigued the whole time. The trail was pretty easy to follow and in pretty good shape. Blue Lake looks like the place to camp and we saw a few people camped there. Looked like a good place to swim (temperature willing), fish, filter, or just hang out. From there you pass a few lakes with interested names like Dingleberry, Topsy Turvy, and Sailor. Maybe not quite as scenic as the bigger ones but there really are no bad ones

. On to Hungry Packer

. It's these higher lakes with the Peaks in the background that wow you

. We took a break here and the clouds starting building. Now to decide on side trips. There is no slowing our fearless leader (LP) down. He found a use trail to Moonlight Lake better than anticipated so we went for it. It turned to rock slabs and boulders so it got harder to follow. You can kind of see where a lake might be and work your way over. Cool one. From there it was back to the main trail and then the Midnight Lake junction. Lets do it! John led the way and we were there in no time

. The clouds were still building so we didn't stay long. We got a few drops of ice but never had to put on the rain coats. The clouds seem to like the higher lakes and we were good by the time we hit Blue Lake. A little cold for LP to swim but we filtered and got a break in. From there we cruised on back to the car and drove back to base camp. We had time to put on our Sunday best 8-[

and head to Bishop. Kelly treated us to a nice meal :thanx:

and half a Cardinals game ](*,)

. Good Times! :y:

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