There's also real fine camping another quarter mile south of Jim's arrow, on the west side of Summit Creek just below the confluence with Lews Lakes outlet. In early season the creek crossing may not be viable, but later ... And if you're heading up the side trail to Upper Relief Valley and want to break before that last 1000 feet of climbing there's a nice spot north of Relief Creek where the trail comes alongside it, about a quarter mile above the junction. Three big firs mark the spot.
Thanks for adding this. Saucer looks so idyllic on the map. The green makes it look so much larger than it is and hides that fact that it's basically a swamp in the right conditions. LOL.
@@highcountrychronicles Yes, decent camping is hard to find all along that trail right up to Brown Bear Pass so the site you mention and the one I do (when the creek is low enough) are good to know. I camped in the fir forest another half mile further up, once, which was strictly make-shift. Good sites are also scarce over Brown Bear Pass in Emigrant Basin, being so open and exposed and effectively above treeline, but there's three good ones spread out around the lake, one in a corner of the granite formation just north of the outlet, one on a shelf on the headwall about 200 feet above lake level, marked by half a dozen pines strung out along it, and another a little corner shelf tucked into the north shoulder of the minor drainage on the northeast side. It's the best of them, one of those magic nooks the Earth Goddess made special for the purpose -- not easy to find and little used but clearly known by those who do. The campsite in the boulder pile north of the trail junction is really scuzzy, you'd never use it unless you ran out of daylight to find better. One year we met a pair of wood nymphs, tres charmantes, camped in the scrub willow east of the North Fork trail a little south of the junction but we let them visit us rather than the other way around, not wanting to crowd them (you know how nymphs are), so I can't comment on their site. The constant wind through Lost Lake won't let anything grow taller than about ten inches and makes it completely uncampable but about a half mile down canyon south of it there's a box-car size erratic boulder with good camping, if you really want it, in its lee. No fish, anyways.
There's also real fine camping another quarter mile south of Jim's arrow, on the west side of Summit Creek just below the confluence with Lews Lakes outlet. In early season the creek crossing may not be viable, but later ... And if you're heading up the side trail to Upper Relief Valley and want to break before that last 1000 feet of climbing there's a nice spot north of Relief Creek where the trail comes alongside it, about a quarter mile above the junction. Three big firs mark the spot.
Thanks for adding this. Saucer looks so idyllic on the map. The green makes it look so much larger than it is and hides that fact that it's basically a swamp in the right conditions. LOL.
@@highcountrychronicles Yes, decent camping is hard to find all along that trail right up to Brown Bear Pass so the site you mention and the one I do (when the creek is low enough) are good to know. I camped in the fir forest another half mile further up, once, which was strictly make-shift.
Good sites are also scarce over Brown Bear Pass in Emigrant Basin, being so open and exposed and effectively above treeline, but there's three good ones spread out around the lake, one in a corner of the granite formation just north of the outlet, one on a shelf on the headwall about 200 feet above lake level, marked by half a dozen pines strung out along it, and another a little corner shelf tucked into the north shoulder of the minor drainage on the northeast side. It's the best of them, one of those magic nooks the Earth Goddess made special for the purpose -- not easy to find and little used but clearly known by those who do. The campsite in the boulder pile north of the trail junction is really scuzzy, you'd never use it unless you ran out of daylight to find better. One year we met a pair of wood nymphs, tres charmantes, camped in the scrub willow east of the North Fork trail a little south of the junction but we let them visit us rather than the other way around, not wanting to crowd them (you know how nymphs are), so I can't comment on their site.
The constant wind through Lost Lake won't let anything grow taller than about ten inches and makes it completely uncampable but about a half mile down canyon south of it there's a box-car size erratic boulder with good camping, if you really want it, in its lee. No fish, anyways.
Good info!
Thanks!
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