Overnight Hike, Glacial Lake

KillRamsey

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Location
Hood River, OR
Name
Kyle
A friend turned 40, so their family invited us to join them on a hike to a little glacial alpine lake in Washington saturday-sunday. This was the first trip like that with our daughter, somehow. We overpacked, and the "easy looking" 2.1 mile hike turned out to be 3/4 uphill, then 1/4 downhill. I was beat just 15 minutes in, and it took 2 hours. But I shuffled along, took breaks, and did ok. The massive head cold I have didn't help much, but hey, you can't see it in the pictures! Speaking of pictures...

XT1 / 18-55 / Rokinon 12 f2.

Hiking in.
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The destination lake is bottom center. So you climb up to this ridge, then go along it, then drop down into the bowl.
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Found our friends. He pulled several east coast species of trout out of this lake... someone stocked it once with brookies and browns.
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Got one.
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Brown trout
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Low light with the 18-55... requires some timing and patience. Wait til a face is lit up by a headlamp and not moving much.
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by gordopuggy, on Flickr

New hammock works
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Where the Rokinon shines...
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