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Granite Slab Trail & Lodgepole via Powerline is a 4.3-mile out-and-back near Lake Alpine, CA. It climbs 457 ft, with sections as steep as 20% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 7/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi7,084 – 7,566 ft · steepest grade: 20%4.4 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Lodgepole 38.48383, -120.01917
Nearest town Lake Alpine, CA

Directions

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Granite Slab Trail & Lodgepole via Powerline

4.3 mi · ▲ 457 ft · 1 hr 40 min

Elevation 7,083–7,565 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Lodgepole · 38.48383, -120.01917

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:47 AM · sunset 7:02 PM

Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Lodgepole, heading SW.
  2. 0.9 miTurn left onto Granite Slab Trail, heading S.
  3. 1.3 miReach Lodgepole, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  4. 1.3 miTurn right onto Lodgepole, heading N.
  5. 0.9 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

100% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:47 AMSunset 7:02 PM

Good to know

  • Toilets at the trailhead
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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