Hiking the Mammoth Crest Loop Trail
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Hiking the beautiful Mammoth Crest Loop trail in Mammoth Lakes, California.
Apologies for the windscreen appearing in a few of the shots - this will not be present in future videos!
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Filmed in July of 2020 with a GoPro Hero 8 and iPhone 8 Plus.
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Thanks for keeping the music to a minimum. I appreciate hearing the ambient sounds, your footsteps, breathing, etc. I also appreciate your enthusiasm. Good work!
Thanks a lot!
I really liked the Relive at the end to give me a better view of the route you took up the scree field exiting Deer Lakes to reconnect with the Duck Pass Trail. That's the hike I've been wanting to do for a long time but that's the section of (non) trail I'm concerned about. However, once connected back to the Duck Pass Trail I want to cut over to Pika Lake to spend the night, then return to Coldwater Campground. Thanks for another great video.
I'll have to wait till later today to watch this but I always enjoy your videos. They're outstanding!
The summary discussion is helpful and makes the video more useful.
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Love the description of the trail!
Wow, this is one special video!!! The views are beyond spectacular!!!! Great hike! I’m subscribing. Looking forward to catching up on your previous videos!! Great job!!
The Mammoth Crest is a part of the High Sierra Route a la Roper. Nice video.
Beautiful video‼️👍😎
Mammoth just make you feel great to be alive. Gods 💎 in California to bring us back to sanity.
Incredible photography!
This was very helpful, thank you. Happy trails!!
I just got back from a week in Mammoth!😎😩 I can't wait to go back! So many places to explore its a real Gem in Cali! Great video sir!!!🙏👍🙌
Thanks for the video. It gave us the courage to hike over the crest closer to the rock climb to duck lake pass-we are in our late 70’s and used to take the “too well traveled” crystal lake path on this hike. This hike ranked with the Kaibab trail in the Grand Canyon in my opinion.
I like the way you film so we see what you are seeing. So many point the camera at themselves.
Excellent clip!
Great informative video Scott, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
A drink and a snack at Deer Lakes. Nothing better. Thanks for sharing!
Gorgeous!!
Beautiful place! Thanks for sharing
Great production and filming. Thanks
Beautiful area
Hermoso Beautiful
That little trail summary / Relive part at the end is awesome and so helpful for perspective. You are a hiking beast and seeing the entire trail and terrain you just climbed - with a smile on your face no less! - proves it. Thank you for sharing!
Glad it was helpful and thank you!! Can’t wait to get back!
Amazing video, Mammoth Lakes has it all. Doing a motorcycle ride their Wednesday, riding over to Piñecrest, Ca. In Stanislaus National Forrest, Love Mammoth !
Beautiful, beautiful!! We were just there. I have always loved Mammoth Lakes. You said, “If you have the time and mobility, do it.” Well, I have the time, but at 60 years old ... not the mobility 😁. I’ll just live vicariously through your videos. Thank you for making them. They’re outstanding!
Thank you so much!
Thanks for another great video. I really appreciate the recap and logistical perspective/ planning piece you added at the end.
Nice!
I will this trail onto my to do list of trails
I've done this hike a couple of times. It is very doable in one day without camping anywhere along the way. My GPS tracklog of the hikes shows about 13.4 miles total. There is a way to get back to Lake George without walking on roads and dodging cars. Just past Skelton Lake, heading northwest, is the turnoff to the Emerald Lake trail. The section between the Duck Pass trail and Emerald Lake is very pretty, but also quite steep. Past Emerald Lake is a turnoff to Barrett and T'J. Lakes. This trail takes you all of the way to Lake George.
The times you've done this hike did you do it counter clockwise also? And did you pretty much take the same route up the scree field out of Deer Lakes? I've hesitated to do this hike because I'm uncertain about this part of the trail and I'll be by myself. I also want to circle around to Pika Lake to spend the night, then return to Coldwater Campground.
@@rkatrails Yes, counterclockwise both times. I like doing my uphills hike on less crowded trails and once you pass the turn off to Crystal Lake, the trail get pretty uncrowded. Also, once you start climbing out of the flat tundra area of the Mammoth crest, you're going were few people go. I love taking a break at Deer Lakes, because I feel like I have the place to myself. When you get up to the scree area, just continue along on the bottom and drop down along the edge toward the tarn. You'll to the left a rough trail, which is what Sheety33 followed. It's steep but easy to follow and not that long an uphill. Then the trail becomes much easier to follow. Note that there are a lot of different ways to go back down to the Duck Pass trail. So if you see terrain that looks different than what Sheety33 saw, you're fine. You will get to the Duck Pass trail eventually. Where Sheety33 hit the Duck Pass Trail, you would have to turn right to get to the trail down to Pike Lake. Otherwise, you would go left until the junction. It's fairly obvious when you get to the trail junction, where to go to get to Pika Lake.
@@slegal62 Thank you for the excellent description, it helps a lot.
Thank you for this - appreciate the insight!
Another great video.
Hey! We just did this a few weeks ago. We stayed at Deer and then Duck lake. Great trip!
Awesome!!
So Beautiful! Amazing views!
Great video as always:) I'd love to do this hike. (It's no big deal and it may be just me, but the trekking poles in the first-person view from your chest camera was a little distracting.)
Agree! Was curious how the GoPro footage would appear when chest mounted - now we know ;)
Love all of your Yosemite and Inyo hikes! So beautiful. My son and I are planning do the JMT from Mammoth area to Mt. Whitney. Where do you usually park your car when you do your hikes out of that area? Is there a good resource or recommendation to leave my car there for two weeks in the Mammoth or closer to the trailheads?
I left mine at Duck Pass TH, and after I returned by ESTEC it was still there!
Did you see any smoke from the wildfires? My father was camping in Lee Vining and he said the smoke was bad.
Stunning shots man, hope to make a trip out to Mammoth Lakes in the future! What did you use to keep the iPhone steady? Great video!
would you still need a permit if you did this hike as a day hike ?
Just curious, what type of hiking shoes are you wearing? Gonna do our first over-nighter to 1000 Island Lake and need to invest in a shoe.
Hi! Currently using Nike Pegasus 36 Trail.
Sheety33 TY
Santiago Hills yeah...I have been researching that this week. Sad to hear this...maybe the 6 inch hole needs to be revised!! 😳
Where is the first source of water if you are doing the loop counter clockwise? Thanks
You could cut down to Crystal Lake. Next water source from memory was Deer Lakes.
@@Sheety33 Thank you