TO TRAILHEAD: Take CA 299 W for 50 mi. to Weaverville; turn R on CA 3. Go 30 mi. to Trinity Center, then continue N for 21 more mi. Turn L onto FR 39N20. Turn R @ first Y; in 1.3 mi., turn L @ second Y. Park .5 mi. later in large lot.
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TBL01
Distance: 4.16 mi
Points: 1381
Calories: none
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Tangle Blue Lake
Points of Interest
TBL001
Location: 41.229881, -122.703781
From Tangle Blue trailhead (4,684 ft.), head SSW on Grand National Trail (old logging road)
TBL002
Location: 41.227821, -122.707512
R @ Y
TBL003
Location: 41.228226, -122.710434
Cross Tangle Blue Creek on steel bridge and start 200-ft. climb
TBL004
Location: 41.229565, -122.714111
R @ Y, curl NW through deeply carved canyon cradling Tangle Blue Creek into Trinity Alps Wilderness
TBL005
Location: 41.222736, -122.728043
Dirt road changes to trail, pass outlet stream of Mosquito Lake hidden 1,400 ft. above
TBL006
Location: 41.220013, -122.731140
R @ Y, cross seasonal creek. In the steep hill to S rests the old Grand National Mine, a leftover of the 19th-century gold rush
TBL007
Location: 41.217464, -122.738739
Cross seasonal flows of Marshy Creek and climb among giant cedars draped with bright-green moss into a small meadow colored by wildflowers
TBL008
Location: 41.217361, -122.741196
L @ Y
TBL009
Location: 41.215706, -122.742195
Cross Tangle Blue Creek near the old site of Messner Cabin and ascend last 350 ft. through firs and pines
TBL010
Location: 41.208019, -122.744095
Tangle Blue Lake (5,746 ft.). Several lakeside sites; grab one on the white-sand beach on S shoreline. The peak above you is unnamed; snap photos of the alpenglow