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Kim Brown
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Not much to say about this hike, since it's been done by everyone on the planet, except I'm glad the forest portion wasn't boring, as I remembered it from my trip there a decade ago. Then it was a sunny day. This weekend was foggy, so perhaps that is the wonderful difference. Plus, it's not all scraggly forest as I remembered, much of it is beautiful recovering forest from an old burn. I love it when you smell it before you see it - Alaska yellow-cedar. Sublime.
Pretty much just photos to share: (edit: I don't have full-on photos of the lake; I guess I enjoy all the other stuff so much, I forgot to load the lake into Flickr  ).
And I forgot to load the photo of millions of blown anenomae. (anenomaeii? anenomes? aeer?). But there were millions.
 Crystal Lakes, MRNP  Crystal Lakes, MRNP  Crystal Lakes, MRNP  Crystal Lakes, MRNP  Rainieria stricta. Head-scratcher until I got home and looked it up. Flower like silvercrown, leaves like fireweed. We dubbed it False Silvercrown fireweed. We're witty, boy.  Shaggy ink cap in the morning  Shaggy ink cap in the afternoon  Cusick's speedwell  Cusick's speedwell  O wait, here's a lake photo  Crystal Lakes, MRNP  Crystal Lakes, MRNP  Crystal Lakes, MRNP  Crystal Lakes, MRNP  Amanita with a tarn on top and bough reflection  Alaska yellow-cedar flags  alaska yellow cedar
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
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nordique
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 Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:37 pm |
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Whew, great photos--and on the sort of day when I'd decide it was too wet to hike!
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Ski
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Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:49 pm |
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fabulous, Kim. 
I must be living on another planet, because I have not hiked that trail. 
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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Kim Brown
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I forgot to add that JimK and I hiked this trail. It's always polite to name the hiking partner. Fun time.
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
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Backpacker Joe
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Great pics Kimmy.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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neek
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Wed Aug 14, 2019 4:58 pm |
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a little moisture can lead to great close-ups. love the shrooms!
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JimK
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JimK
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Wed Aug 14, 2019 7:27 pm |
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I have a trip report with lots of photos at: Crystal Lakes Report
Here are a few of my photos:
 Raindrop Needles  Indian Paintbrush  Kim At Work  Elephant Head  Cloudy Point  Lotsa Anemones  Upper Crystal Lake
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kiliki
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kiliki
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Thu Aug 15, 2019 12:28 pm |
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Acting on a tip that it isn't as crowded as you'd think on weekends, I went there on a recent Saturday. We got there at 9, so not super early, but still practically had the upper lake to ourselves. It seems like most people went to Crystal Peak which is the opposite of how things used to be. We did un-decorate a small, lakeside baby spruce of the orange peels and egg shells someone left. We went up to Sourdough Gap which had more folks than the lake. Lots of cars at the th when we got back, but all in all, considering how Rainier gets hammered on weekends now*, it was surprisingly quiet.
*I overheard someone at the th say they had a permit to camp at the lakes, but they didn't have the actual permit because when they tried to get it at the wilderness info center, it would have been a 4 hour wait.
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