Wonderland Trail 7 days, 6 nights of mostly awesome: lake

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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Day 4 - Eagles Roost to Mystic (Spray Park Detour) ~11 miles +/- 3

The first three days of the hike didn't seem boring, but the rest of the hike was actually insane. I think it started at Eagles Roost with our neighbors offering us their 'extra' vodka, but continued with a trip to Spray Falls, a several mile detour and route finding mishap above Spray Park and then past the Carbon Glacier, Moraine Park, and 'Old Desolate' mountains - which I am sure is where a very serious and probably upset with wizard lives - and then we found Mystic Lake.

Wakey, Wakey

Note marmot cameo

2nd full on suspension bridge of the hike

So it isn't just that large white thing that is the Carbon Glacier, but that rocky mass in front of it too

The birth of the Carbon River

Seriously a wizard lives here; Nothing should look that menacing under a blue sky.

Friday, July 25, 2014

Day 3 - Golden Lakes to Eagles Roost 12.1miles

I guess I must of slept really well. I was the first one out of camp before 8am and broke cobwebs and knocked last nights rain off of all of the vegetation for the first 5 miles. At some point I looked at my rain gear and it was all insanely covered in bear grass flowers. The hike started to feel like a real trail on this day - I ended up running into a handful of people I would later run into toward the end of my hike and I got my first re-supply and Jeff joined the hike. I arrived at Mowich around 1:30pm.

Golden Lakes

I think the Mowich River was my favorite of the whole trip - I don't think this picture really gives a true feeling of how raging and how huge it really was.

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.