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These pics are from last weekend at Lake Caroline and Windy Pass. This coming weekend I'll be in the Core Enchantments where it's even more amazing.
It's really tempting to post the GPS map route and explain the elevation gain and total distances and get all geeky but I'm not going to. I'll just say it was about 17 miles total. We started at 3,200 feet and the highest we got was 7,380 feet.
This is Little Eightmile Lake and our first stop for a break.
There's a junction at Little Eightmile Lake that leads to Lake Caroline, and as soon as you take it, you start going up and up and up. In this one you can see Little Eightmile Lake directly below. There was a wildfire in this area in the 90's and that's why all the trees are dead and burnt.
You can see Eightmile Lake in this one. Just off camera to the left is Little Eightmile Lake.
I wish this pic had proper focus. The wildflowers out there were astoundingly vibrant.
After that break we huffed it the rest of the way and I was grunting and breathing too hard to take any more pictures until we finally caught our first glimpse of Lake Caroline.
From our campsite.
Hard to find level ground out there, but this worked out just fine.
Now we're heading up to Windy Pass, 1,200 feet higher than our camp in 2 miles. We'd heard the views are certainly worth the effort once you got there, so we decided to give it a go.
It was really hot for this part.
It's really tempting to post the GPS map route and explain the elevation gain and total distances and get all geeky but I'm not going to. I'll just say it was about 17 miles total. We started at 3,200 feet and the highest we got was 7,380 feet.
This is Little Eightmile Lake and our first stop for a break.
There's a junction at Little Eightmile Lake that leads to Lake Caroline, and as soon as you take it, you start going up and up and up. In this one you can see Little Eightmile Lake directly below. There was a wildfire in this area in the 90's and that's why all the trees are dead and burnt.
You can see Eightmile Lake in this one. Just off camera to the left is Little Eightmile Lake.
I wish this pic had proper focus. The wildflowers out there were astoundingly vibrant.
After that break we huffed it the rest of the way and I was grunting and breathing too hard to take any more pictures until we finally caught our first glimpse of Lake Caroline.
From our campsite.
Hard to find level ground out there, but this worked out just fine.
Now we're heading up to Windy Pass, 1,200 feet higher than our camp in 2 miles. We'd heard the views are certainly worth the effort once you got there, so we decided to give it a go.
It was really hot for this part.