by Phil » Tue Jun 08, 2021 5:41 pm
Hidden Lake is below Olmstead Pt, and it's not going to be worth the time and effort. Assuming you have any flow on Snow Creek (if not, trip killed right then and there), you should be able to bypass Hidden Lake and just refill at Tenaya Lake/Creek for the climb up to Sunrise. It'll be faster, easier, and it's only about another mile and a half further, all downhill.
Sunrise Creek was sketchy last year at that time, so you better hope, because this year is definitely dryer. Crazy what a good pump will do though. If it is dry, you could always consider accessing the Merced by going past the Sunrise HSC and through Echo Valley, and just bite the bullet by rerouting and doing HD up from LYV, with your required and largest water load for just up and back to the dome pumped out of the river, not a creek (you add a 2 mile climb, but you would have to carry just about as much to HD anyway, anyhow)... If you have to, even if Sunrise Creek is totally dry, to save the trip, as long as there's something pumpable in Snow Creek, except for the extra work involved in the Merced diversion, you really shouldn't have to alter much or lug anything more that what you might otherwise need to carry normally. Your fill points would all roughly be the same up until that point, regardless. It might suck, but it'll work if you really need it to.