For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be. " Sara Teasdale
The above photo was copied and pasted from the internet at BinaryDarkroom.com. It shows the larches during late fall, on the trail to Blue Lake. Our hike was too early in the year to see the larch show but this photo shows them in full color. Maybe next year we will go later in the year.
My friends Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Do.
Patricia and Nina
Patricia and Beth
Our hiking guide, Patricia
Clear water at Blue Lake!
Crossing the bridge over the summer dry creek.
There it is!
So much wild heather and other beautiful mountain flora. We speculated that the reddish shrubby stuff was blue or huckleberries. Either way, it's already turning fiery red!
Nearly five miles round trip and elevation gain of 1100 feet. Took us only three hours and fifteen minutes and that includes goof off time!
Shedding our coats now that we're out in the sunshine!
Granite boulders! Wish I could bring one or two home for a landscape project!
The luxury of a wide, roomy trail!
Peaks in the area are Cutthroat, Liberty Bell, and Early Winter Spires. Seems like around each bend Patricia would say, "I climbed that one... I climbed that one..." I felt like I was in the company of some serious Outdoor Barbie.
Seems we all wore our lumbar packs which gave us great opportunity to laugh at the size of our suddenly voluptuous posteriors!
Tinkle break and view points.
On the last day of summer Nina, Patricia and I hiked up to Blue Lake. It's a 2 and half hour drive, nearly to Winthrop, but well worth it! The company was perfect, anyways, so the drive doesn't feel long at all.
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