Saturday, June 1, 2013

Verlot Campground & Lake 22

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Today we drove to the Mountain Loop Highway outside of Granite Falls, WA to possibly camp for the night along the Stillaguamish River and at least go camp to an alpine lake in the Cascade Mountains.

We made camp at a nice site at Verlot Campground where we could hear the rushing of the river beyond. 

We chose to hike to Lake 22, a 5.5 mile roundtrip trail to an alpine lake at the base of Mount Pilchuck. Cascading Twentytwo Creek through an ancient forest of cedars 




Hiking fools in mossy ancient forest 
Mossy tree 
My cute Chance is my scale figure, showing the massive size of this tree. 
An opening in the forest with our first view of the Cascade peaks. 


Water lilies growing in the Pacific Northwest forest 
We’ve now come across the point on the trail that is still covered with snow. 
Lake 22 set beneath an impressive vertical wall of rock. 

Joe, Jackie & Chance at Lake 22. 
Jackie at Lake 22. 
Lunch break on the one portion of the dock not covered in snow. 

Clear, beautiful lake water 

Waterfalls crash off the sheer cliffs. 
It was still too early in summer to safely circumnavigate the lake on a 1.2 mile trail so we turned back to the car.

The clouds cleared a little on the way back down the trail to reveal a bright blue sky. 
One more family photo 
Roasting his wiener over the fire 
My turn roasting my hot dog dinner over the campfire
Followed by roasting marshmallows

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