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Hemlock Crossing on the North Fork San Joaquin River

DAY 4 (Corral Meadow to Granite Creek Campground Trailhead, 9 miles): Plan to get an early start: Today’s hike involves a grueling descent to a bridge over North Fork San Joaquin and then a hot climb back up to the road, which you follow back to Granite Creek Campground Trailhead.

Retrace your steps to the last junction and turn left (southwest) onto the westbound historic Mammoth Trail, a toll route that brought supplies from Fresno Flats (Oakhurst) to the eastside mining camps around Mammoth Lakes back in the 1870s and ‘80s.

From here, it’s down, down, down. Cross Cargyle Creek before meeting the Earthquake Meadow lateral at Snake Meadow; go ahead (southwest) here toward Sheep Crossing. The trail switchbacks steeply westward down toward the river, bypassing a faint spur trail left (south). Continue the westward (toward the river) descent; as the switchbacks end, the trail swings north toward the steel bridge at Sheep Crossing. Rest and get water at Sheep Crossing before tackling the short but steep, mile-plus climb to Indian Meadow.