Steve and I went to the Placerville Library for a meeting and presentation.  The speaker, Bill Finch, is a US Forest Service Volunteer Backcountry Wilderness Ranger for Desolation Wilderness.  Desolation Wilderness is 63,960 acres of sub-alpine and alpine forest, granite peaks, and glacially-formed valleys and lakes, land which is part of the Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve, established in 1899.

Bill's knowledge of the area, his enthusiam for its beauty and the slideshow of his hiking adventures made us want to get out in it and explore.

Needless-to-say, since it looks like this currently, we will have to wait.

Last May, we barely entered the Wilderness.  As winter ends, hiking here is on our list of "must do".  As seasons change, we can only imagine hiking amongst vibrant spring colors in the Sierra Nevada. With over 120,000 visitors a year, Desolation is the most used Wilderness for its size in the nation.  Hearing Bill's presentation, we now know why!