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Gary Robertshaw | all galleries >> The Yosemite Collection >> Finding Yosemite's Sierra Point > The Route
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24-APR-2007 © 2007 by Gary Robertshaw

The Route

A google earth view of the waypoints I set on the route.
(click on the small photo for a better view)

0. Leave John Muir Trail
37°43'46.56"N
119°33'28.14"W

1. Old Trail
37°43'46.38"N
119°33'25.08"W

2. Trail continues
37°43'45.66"N
119°33'23.46"W

3. Rockslide 1
37°43'44.52"N
119°33'21.30"W

4. Trail continues
37°43'44.28"N
119°33'20.52"W

5. Rockslide 2
37°43'43.86"N
119°33'20.28"W

6. Trail
37°43'40.92"N
119°33'21.12"W

7. Trail
37°43'39.00"N
119°33'20.28"W

8. Sierra Point lookout
37°43'37.32"N
119°33'20.16"W


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Jeff P. 09-May-2013 19:46
My wife and I did the trail a few weeks ago. I've always done it a slightly different way, what I think may be the original way. There used to be a series of footbridges out of the back side of Happy Isles. NPS has removed the last bridge in the series, but there's a good fallen log that'll take you over the last crossing. You'll know you're on the right route when you see the old stairs that lead onto the main trail. This old trail intersected the main trail right near the trail side spring. If I remember correctly the old trail took off just down from the spring. I still use that route, but it takes me up a ways to the right of the trail. You shortly reach a scree line next to an exposed rock outcrop. You can follow the scree all the way until it intersects the old trail, or you can bushwhack laterally left to cut the old trail. Either way, once you cut the old trail it's very easy to follow. BTW, I talked to a trail crew guy the next day and he said that they actively try to remove signs of what he called "social", or unofficial, trails. He hadn't been to Sierra Point but my guess is that he's done it since we talked. Also on the topic of old trails, there used to be a short trail to series of cascades above the Snow Creek bridge behind Mirror Lake. The old trail signs used to highlight it. I think it was called Snow Creek Falls. It's another very short bushwhack entry that, once past, leads to an old trail. It's shorter even than Sierra Point, and again you'll likely see no one back there even though there are hundreds of people a day just a few hundred yards away.
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