A few hours east of Sacramento, the Desolation Wilderness sounds forbidding. While it’s not for the faint of lungs, it’s arguably the best zone in the Sierra Nevada mountains to get away from people and get into the kind of ice blue glacial lakes you see on postcards and beer cans.
Rockbound Pass is a seven-mile hike through wildflower-strewn low-alpine forest that quickly climbs into the granite-faced steeps for which the whole Lake Tahoe region is known. Just below the pass, Lake Doris offers as picturesque an objective as you could hope to find this close to a city of a half million people — most of whom are far more likely to be wandering Desolation’s more popular hikes to the east of Rockbound.
Rockbound Pass is a seven-mile hike through wildflower-strewn low-alpine forest that quickly climbs into the granite-faced steeps for which the whole Lake Tahoe region is known. Just below the pass, Lake Doris offers as picturesque an objective as you could hope to find this close to a city of a half million people — most of whom are far more likely to be wandering Desolation’s more popular hikes to the east of Rockbound.
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