When we got to the lake we decided to hike around it – probably about 2 miles. Going around the near side of the lake was a nice hike – the path was clear and the view was great. I know that I've posted a lot of pictures of snow-covered mountains, but that is the most striking feature of the landscape here and it still impresses me!
A lot of the trees have unusual fungus growing on them. I don’t recall seeing this grow in the Midwest.
Hiking around the far side of the lake was quite a bit harder. The elevation didn’t change, but the landscape did. The path pretty much disappeared. The only indication of a path was that occasionally we could see where the tree roots were exposed from previous hikers.
Close to the lake there were a lot of areas where rock slides covered where the path might have been, so we had to climb over them. But it wasn’t really dangerous, and it was the most interesting part of the hike. A portion of the old narrow gauge railroad can still be seen running along the lake side, although it’s deeply overgrown now. We also found what looked like bear tracks in the mud by the lake, and we found a beaver dam. It was clear that the beavers had been busy just a short while before.
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