Nearby we saw the largest tamarack I have yet found in the Sierras.

It was fully five feet through and fluted in an interesting and peculiar fashion.
From here we made a mile detour to visit Hank Richards Lake, a beautiful crystal jewel in an incomparable wooded setting.

Then back to Phipps Creek, over a perfect jumble of granite bowlders and tree-clad slopes until we finally struck the trail and followed it to the Lake, and thence home to the Tavern.
The reader should observe that in this, as in the chapter on "Trail Trips," only a sample is given of a score or more of similar trips.
His host at any of the hotels can suggest others equally interesting..