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DAYS 4–6 (Disappointment Lake to Florence Lake Trailhead, 21.75/25.75 miles): Retrace your steps to the trailhead. A radiophone is available near the ferry landing for arranging your return via the water taxi across Florence Lake.

Bear Dam Junction 7017’; 11S 322442 4134284

Information and Permits: This trailhead is in Sierra National Forest: 1600 Tollhouse Road, Clovis, CA 93611, 559-297-0706, www.fs.fed.us/r5/sierra/. Permits are required for overnight stays, and quotas apply; reserved permits and on-demand permits are available.

Driving Directions: From Fresno, take State Hwy. 168 northeast for 42 winding, slow miles toward its end at a T junction on the east shore of Huntington Lake at the community of Lakeshore. Just before reaching Lakeshore, turn right onto the Kaiser Pass Road at the Eastwood Forest Service Center. The road quickly becomes very steep, narrow, and bumpy before Kaiser Pass and is even worse beyond the pass. Blind curves and reckless drivers are problems on this stretch. Allow time to drive very slowly (about 10 mph). As the road descends north and then east from the pass, find seasonally open High Sierra Ranger Station, where you can get on-demand permits. One mile beyond is the Lake Edison/Florence Lake Y junction. Turn left to remain on Kaiser Pass Road and head toward Lake Edison. Bypass the turnoff left to Mono Hot Springs, and go 2.5 miles from the Y junction to the Bear Diversion Dam Road junction, on the right. This is the “Bear Dam Junction” from which these trips start and whose elevation and UTM are given at the start of this section. Most vehicles can go no farther, so park near this junction and walk 2.5 more miles east on a rough 4WD road, to the dam proper and to the true trailhead above the reservoir. (A high-clearance 4WD vehicle, not the average, urban SUV, can travel this road those 2.5 more miles to the true trailhead above the reservoir.)