Hi Steve
Out of Crabtree your best bets are either Bear or Gem Lake for an overnight. 聽From Gianelli, you could look at YMeadow, Chewing Gum, Leopold, etc. 聽Depends on how far you want to hike. 聽Bear in mind that ALL of these lakes were frozen solid five days ago according to the Stanislaus National Forest. 聽And the roads to the trailheads are not open.
Other hikes off Highway 108 would include Sword/Lost Lakes, Boulder Lake, Disaster Creek or Clark’s Fork in the Cason Iceberg Wilderness…or Reilef Reservoir, Summit Creek, Leitt 聽Lake in the Emigrant Wilderness.
Ebbetts Pass (Higway4) takes you to Noble Lake on the PCT…89 聽takes you to Carson Pass, and Winnemucca, Round Top, 4th of July Lakes to the South, or North to Sowers, Meiss or Dardanelles Lakes.
We he trip reports on all of these on or website: backpack Sierra.com..