Mike has been busy editing a lot of his photos that he took and he now has the photos ready from the hike that we took on Wednesday or Thursday of last week. I have lost track and know it was in that general time frame. Are you like that too in that you lose track of what the day is when you travel – I really shouldn’t – I have the date and day of the week on my phone and also on the back wall of the camper we have a clock that states what day of the week it is! I have no excuse to forget.
Anyhow last week we took a trail called “Bear Lake”, after you walk around the lake you have the option of going back to the parking lot if you have wimped out – or you can continue on a trail called “Emerald Lake Trail”. On this trail you go to 3 mountain lakes, one after another all about a half a mile apart – and all up hill (or mountain) from Bear Lake. I am glad to say we made it to the top and Mike’s camera battery died and he didn’t get a photo of the last lake – Emerald and it turned out it wasn’t the prettiest anyhow!
A view of Bear lake, the trail goes all the way around the lake - it looks further than it is but it is actually only a 1/2 a mile and it is wheel chair accessible although I think most would need a little help as it is not paved.
another view of the Bear Lake, we first took this hike with our girls back in about 1991.
This little squirrel is called a chickeree, it makes a lot of noise if you are in it territory usually but this little guy was very busy eating. They eat the seeds from the pine cones so they literally take the pine cone apart to get the seeds.
another view of the chickeree, he was in the middle of the path and we were standing only about a foot from it and he totally ignored us, 3 other people came by and stopped to watch also and then a ranger who told us what kind of squirrel he was and what kind of noise they make. The whole time the squirrel concentrated on eating and ignored us even though we had surrounded him after awhile of watching him we all left him behind to continue our hikes.
a Clarks Nutcracker in a tree on our hike
after we left the Bear Lake trail behind us we came upon Dream Lake a half mile further up the trail, that is snow that you see up in the mountains
a stream along side the trail
and this is the primitive bridge that you use to cross the stream
this is me catching my breath (or trying too!) the trail is getting steep and I'm beginning to wonder whose idea was going on this trail anyway 
and more steps! I lost count all I know is the altitude was high enough at the base of the trail and after Dream Lake it started to go up even more. I don't know how many times I had to stop for a sip of water and to breath - I had to keep reminding myself to breath deeply.
after Dream Lake we walked .6 miles only and it felt like 2 miles to me! Here is Nymph Lake - pretty isn't it. Full of Lily Pads although none had flowers any longer.
I do wish I also had a picture of Emerald Lake but like I say I think Bear Lake and Dream Lake were the best and they were the closest to the trail head. I think we walked about 4 miles and it took us about 4 hours, that is including plenty of breathing breaks and snack time and of course the photos!!
It was a beautiful trail and I’m glad we took it!
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Oh I can hardly wait to get there Karen! How are the Aspens – they don’t seem to be turning yet? blessings, marlene
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Beautiful photographs again! I love the lake and stream photos. What a cute little squirrel!
it is beautiful here.
Marlene the aspens were not yellow when we got there but by the end of the week they were starting to turn yellow in places – by time you get here around the 20th they should be in full swing.
The pictures are so gorgeous. I’m so jealous.
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