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Today’s route turns left (northeast) toward Crown Pass and crosses several branches of an unnamed creek via three log bridges. Curving north again, the trail makes a short but steep ascent over another moraine to the south end of a lush meadow. Follow the track across the meadow to Moore Boys Camp (8710’), 6 miles from the trailhead and on the far side of the meadow. Fishing is poor for brook trout, and mosquitoes are voracious until late summer.

Just beyond Moore Boys Camp is a signed junction (8720’) with trails right (east-northeast) to Chimney Lake and Crown Pass and left (north-northeast) toward Woodchuck Lake. Note this junction; you’ll return here on Day 3.

Turn left (north-northeast) toward Woodchuck Lake, cross a couple braids of Woodchuck Creek, and meander past lodgepole pines interspersed with large boulders. As the route ascends moderately along pure lodgepole pine stands, views north reveal the sheer granite ledges that enclose Woodchuck Country. Easterners mistook the Sierra’s marmots for the East’s woodchucks and gave the area this erroneous name, which has stuck.