Day 2 - South Puyallup River to Golden Lakes ~11.5m

The Wonderland Trail is amazingly diverse, some days, you felt like you get all of that diversity in just a few miles.  This was one of them.  I was getting over a little cold and slept in a bit finally leaving camp around 9:30. Despite waking up in the forest near a river, I quickly climbed above the snow line, descended back into the forest, saw a bear and her two cubs, hiked through the fog eventually getting to a sunny burn area and finally camping near a forested lake around 4:30. Insane day.

I found this balloon at about ~5,700ft. First stretch of snow on the trip.



St. Andrews Lake

Starting to get socked in with fog

Descended below the fog - near N. Puyallup Camp

Burn approaching Golden Lakes - much prettier in person.