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Desolation Wilderness AlbumThe Desolation Wilderness is a 63,690 acre (258 kmē) wilderness area located along the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, just west of Lake Tahoe in California, United States. It is a popular backpacking destination, with much barren rocky terrain at the edge of the tree line: it has extensive areas of bare granite. Lake Aloha is a feature of the wilderness area, with shallow, clear waters sitting in a wide granite basin carved by glaciers in the last ice age. The Crystal Mountains are within the wilderness with Pyramid Peak as the highest point in the range and in the wilderness at 9987ft. Among the many waterfalls within the wilderness, Horsetail Falls is one of the most renowned.
The land which became Desolation Wilderness was part of the Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve, established in 1899. In 1910, when the first tourists were beginning to make their way over the narrow dirt roads of Echo and Donner summits, the area was made part of the newly formed Eldorado National Forest. The area was named the Desolation Valley Primitive Area in 1931, and in 1969 Desolation Wilderness was Congressionally designated and included in the National Wilderness Preservation System. -Wikipedia Images
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