Best of Hiking

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Meadowfoam and Goldfields
North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve   #554
Unnamed creek near the Lake Spalding spillway
Pioneer Trail at Lang Crossing   #559

Machado Postpile, 13 million years old
Machado Postpile   #G145
Lyell Fork Tuolumne River
John Muir-Lyell Canyon Trail, Yosemite NP   #560

South Silver Creek Falls at Upper Enchanted Pool
Enchanted Pools Loop, Desolation Wilderness   #G146

Winnemucca Lake
Carson Pass Garden Loop, Mokelumne Wilderness   #561
Ted's Garden #1

Upper and Lower Echo Lakes
Echo Lakes Basin X/C Loop, Desolation Wilderness   #562
Ralston Lake

Fallen Leaf Lake and Tahoe
Keiths Dome, Desolation Wilderness   #563
The so-called "Slabs of Insanity" in Desolation Valley