Lake Day
Snow Lake, Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Washington
When an early morning check of the park webcams showed everything still fogged in at Mount Rainier I changed my hiking plans at the last minute and headed up to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness.
It has been five years since I hiked to this lake despite the trailhead being less than an hour away from my house, and on the way up I was remembering all the reasons it has been so long: an extremely rocky trail (including stretches where giant rocks ARE the trail), the bugs, and lots of people. When I got to the lake, the bugs abated with the cool breeze coming off the water, I hiked around the back side of the lake to find some relative solitude, and I succumbed to the beauty of the gorgeous lake basin, thinking "I should really hike this more often". At the end of the hike, after the knee and ankle crunching descent, I revised that thought to "nope, I'm good for another 5 years". Lol
Lake Day
Snow Lake, Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Washington
When an early morning check of the park webcams showed everything still fogged in at Mount Rainier I changed my hiking plans at the last minute and headed up to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness.
It has been five years since I hiked to this lake despite the trailhead being less than an hour away from my house, and on the way up I was remembering all the reasons it has been so long: an extremely rocky trail (including stretches where giant rocks ARE the trail), the bugs, and lots of people. When I got to the lake, the bugs abated with the cool breeze coming off the water, I hiked around the back side of the lake to find some relative solitude, and I succumbed to the beauty of the gorgeous lake basin, thinking "I should really hike this more often". At the end of the hike, after the knee and ankle crunching descent, I revised that thought to "nope, I'm good for another 5 years". Lol