May 30th

Our Day Trip to Fairy Lake

Our thoughts were to take a Jeep rated trail to the high country and then do a short half mile round trip hike to Fairy Lake.

This is what we intended to see:

This is what we saw:

Not thinking about the Jeep trail being closed due to snow, we were required to park at mile marker one and hike the rest of the way if we wanted to see the alpine lake. The lake is a little past mile marker six.

So our short hike just became a 10 mile round trip hike to the lake. Thank goodness we had a bag of beef jerky, a can of wasabi nuts, a candy bar and 2 liters of water. The journey to the lake was up, up, up and more up. Coming back down was welcomed relief.

Along the way there were, lets say some lads that were slightly younger than we were, they passed us going up the snow bound trail. Their intent was to camp and night ski off the top of the mountain. I think they were a little more ambitious than we were. (We did actually get to pass them once on the way to the lake.) I know they had to be thinking that there is no way those "old" folks are going to make it to Fairy Lake, but we did. Ha!

Fairy Lake Campground Video: