Echo Summit to Tahoe City 50 Mile Backpack
Trip Plan
Friday 8/5/16
7 AM
Drive to Pollock Pines to get the Wilderness Permit
- Vehicle 1 (8 Seatbelts)
- Vehicle 2 (6 Seatbelts)
8 AM
Permit Station Opens
- Pacific Ranger Station
- 7887 Highway 50
- Pollock Pines, CA 95726-9602
- (530) 647-5415
- Hours: 8 AM to 4:30 PM (summer 7 days a week, winter Monday - Friday)
8:30 AM
Ldr1, Scout1, Scout2, Scout3 head to South Lake Tahoe for a day of fun
- Vehicle 1 (8 Seatbelts)
- Vehicle 2 (6 Seatbelts)
At some point, one of the vehicles will be left at the end of the trail in Tahoe City:
64 Acres Tahoe Rim Trail Trailhead
Tahoe City, CA 96145
1:30 PM
Scout6 dropped at Ldr2's House
2:00 PM
Leave for Tahoe City
- Vehicle 3 (5 Seatbelts)
- Vehicle 4 (7 Seatbelts)
4:00 PM
Arrive in Tahoe City
- Park Vehicle 4 (7 Seatbelts)
- Vehicle 3 (5 Seatbelts) leaves for South Lake Tahoe
5:00 PM or thereafter
Ldr1, Scout1, Scout2, Scout3, Ldr2, Drvr1, Scout4, Scout5, Scout6 arrive at the overnight residence for the night.
South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
You will have access to the kitchen, so bring something for dinner.
- Vehicle 2 (6 Seatbelts)
- Vehicle 3 (5 Seatbelts)
7 PM or thereafter
Ldr3 arrives at the Overnight Residence
Vehicle 5 (3 Seatbelts)
Saturday 8/6/16
8:00 AM
Cleanup and leave for trailhead at Echo Summit. Must be out by 10 AM
- Vehicle 2 (6 Seatbelts)
- Vehicle 3 (5 Seatbelts)
- Vehicle 5 (3 Seatbelts)
10:00 AM
Park cars at trailhead and start hike
- Vehicle 2 (6 Seatbelts)
- Vehicle 5 (3 Seatbelts)
Drvr1 goes back to S.L.T. in Vehicle 3 (5 Seatbelts)
Wednesday 8/10/16
2 PM Hikers arrive in Tahoe City and board the vehicles for the drive back to Echo Summit
- Vehicle 4 (7 Seatbelts)
- Vehicle 1 (8 Seatbelts)
Vehicle 4 (7 Seatbelts) can pLdr1ably drive straight back to Sacramento, Vehicle 1 (8 Seatbelts) heads to Echo Summit for Vehicle 5 (3 Seatbelts) and Vehicle 2 (6 Seatbelts) pickup
3 PM Vehicle 1 (8 Seatbelts) Arrives at Echo Summit
4 PM Vehicle 4 (7 Seatbelts) arrives in Orangevale
6 PM Hikers arrive in Sacramento
- Vehicle 5 (3 Seatbelts)
- Vehicle 1 (8 Seatbelts)
- Vehicle 2 (6 Seatbelts)