by BCL » Mon Aug 11, 2014 6:35 am
If you make your Florida buddy slog up Sill from Dusy Basin, you won't be friends anymore.
I was afraid of that...
peninsula wrote:TheRightPants wrote:A great spot for fishing is the upper Treasure Lake basin at an elevation near 11,200 feet. Treasure Lake trail comes off the main trail to Bishop Pass at around 10,225 feet — it was well marked last time I visited 13 - 14 years ago. I camped at a nice spot near one of the upper lakes by a small tarn full of fingerlings. There are also campsites near the lower Lake at 10,675 (more traffic around the lower lake), but it is the upper lakes that offer the best fishing. After a day of fishing and acclimating, the main trail can be picked up via a Class One x-country route to the south of Hurd Peak due west of the Timberline Tarns. The fishing along the main trail before Bishop Pass is not all that great due to the heavier traffic, but their are plenty of campsites. Dusy Basin is one of the areas picked for the Mountain Yellow-legged Frog restoration project and the fish may have been removed from area lakes. The fishing in Dusy Basin was very good before the project. Camp sites away from the main trail in Dusy are spectacular, it is an awesome basin. The Palisades are of my all-time favorites.
Awesome. This might be a winner, thank you. I'll call Inyo about backcountry camping and fishing in the Treasure Lake area this week. Looks like a good trail past Saddlerock to Bishop Lake-ish, then a bit of cross-country. Any tricks to be aware of on that ascent? The page for the west slope route of Aggasiz is a bit thin. Maybe that's a good sign!