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mennoguy
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Weminuche Trails

Post by mennoguy »

I've been looking at some old maps of the Weminuche near Needle Creek and I see a trail leaving Needle Creek near New York Creek which heads south to Emerald Lake. The only mention of the trail I could find was in a 1970s guidebook which said it was a difficult unmaintained trail. Has anyone here hiked the trail, is it still navigable?
DaveLanders
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Re: Weminuche Trails

Post by DaveLanders »

There is a trail going up to Webb Lake from the New York Creek junction. In spite of what my topo maps say, it stays on the
west side of the outlet creek from Webb Lake. The upper part was a pretty clear switchbacking trail; I lost it lower down, but
I might have missed a switchback. I've heard that the alleged Emerald Lake trail doesn't actually exist, but I've never tried to
find it myself. There's all kinds of old mining ruins in there, but they're pretty much invisible from the Needle Creek trail.
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