05 August 2017

Top Secret

On Friday the stars aligned just right for my dear friend and fellow Bodieite, Betty, to meet me at the Leavitt Meadows trailhead for a hike out to Secret Lake. Neither of us had ever been, but I have to say that this was probably one of the most beautiful hikes I've ever done. I know I say that about a lot of places, but truly - there were gorgeous vistas every way you looked, the whole trail, and you barely even had to work for them. Well, it was uphill pretty much the whole way there, but nothing crazy. What follows are some photos from along the way.
We went through a section of what we believe was serpentine rock - beautiful greens and blacks

Betty making her way up one of the many hills

View from one of the many hilltops

Vista looking east towards the mountain training center and what I'm guessing is Mud Lake (settled in the upper plains on the center-right of the photo)

Another vista - that largest snow patch on the right of the near mountain had a long narrow waterfall going all the way down it - so pretty!

Do you see the crawdad? They were all over in this lake!!

Secret Lake

B-etty and Jackaldine ;)

You can see the blue-green of Poore Lake through the trees at the base of the mountain

Now you see the lizard...

.. now you don't!

Another beautiful rock - likely so sort of copper in it. There was a pile of this blue-green rock visible in the distance.

Snow-capped mountains in the distance!

Wyoming Paintbrush - it's pink!

The West Walker River - very pretty, still very high

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