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Incline Peak

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  2. CA
  3. …High Sierra
  4. Lake Tahoe
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1.4 Miles 2.2 Kilometers


Ascent

1,141' 348 m

Ascent

-55' -17 m

Descent

16%

Avg Slope (9°)

49%

Max Slope (26°)

9,472' 2,887 m

High

8,340' 2,542 m

Low

Shared By Tim Varner

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Avalanche risk for Jan 21, 2019: Considerable

Dangerous avalanche conditions. Careful snowpack evaluation, cautious route-finding and conservative decision-making essential. Natural avalanches possible; human-triggered avalanches likely.

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“This is a short skin up to an awesome vista of Lake Tahoe.”

— Tim Varner
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Type: Backcountry or Sidecountry

Description

Start off with a skin slide down a bank to the lake/meadow. There's usually a nice skin track across some rolling flats into the bowl that you can see from the road. At this point, some people choose to skin up the descent line, but I prefer to traverse up to the ridge and ride that up. The skin up to the peak can get close to as steep as the gut, but at least you're not in a terrain trap and can make decisions about the safety of upcoming descents. From the summit, you get amazing views of sunrises over Carson Valley and sunsets over Lake Tahoe.

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Land Manager: USFS - Humboldt & Toiyabe National Forests Office

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Brief rest in the skin track up toward Incline Peak
Brief rest in the skin track up toward Incline…
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View of Lake Tahoe from Incline Peak's Summit
View of Lake Tahoe from Incline Peak's Summit
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