The hike into the Desolation Wilderness from Fallen Leaf Lake begins innocently enough. Leaving a well-marked trailhead, the trail winds through a cobbled stream course shaded by groves of willow and ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Nineteen miles of trail that travel through Desolation Wilderness from Echo Lakes to Lake Aloha are in desperate need of extensive restoration work due to high use, erosion, ...

A San Francisco man who went missing in the Desolation Wilderness Tuesday was found dead. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office first responded to reports of an abandoned campsite near Lake Aloha, a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. (KTXL) — The El ...

EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) — The body of a missing hiker from San Francisco has been found in the Desolation Wilderness near Lake Aloha. According to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office, they first ...

Backpacking can seem intimidating to newcomers, but it doesn’t need to be: Here are the best backpacking trails across the country to get started on. For some, it’s hard to imagine an easy intro to ...

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89 miles east of Sacramento in the desolation wilderness is this lake aloha? But there's no palm trees, no sandy beach, no grass skirt. So how did this leg? At an elevation of 8000 ft high in the ...