Backpacking Lake Eleanor, Yosemite: Early Season & Wet Winter Friendly Place to Rest your Moka Pot

Backpacking Lake Eleanor, Yosemite: Early Season & Wet Winter Friendly Place to Rest your Moka Pot

Curtis and I took this mini-backpacking trip out to Lake Eleanor 2 months ago (May 5th). It was an early season, snow-less but rainy, little backpack from our neighboring Groveland District of the Stanislaus National Forest into the eastern edge of Yosemite. Here we found a grouping of established campsites (bear bins, fire rings) on the western side of the lake. Lake Eleanor was a ghost town on the May…