Hike 8: South Wilderness Cpast- September 19, 2002 Distance: 6.5 Miles (Round trip) For this trip, we decided to do some car camping and day hike to Toleak Point. Unfortunately, we didn't check the tide charts before we left home and we didn't know there was going to be a weak ebb tide which wouldn't leave us enough time to get to Toleak Point and back before the tide was too high for us to reach Taylor Point on the return. We still had a nice hike to the beach at Scotts Bluff where we saw three sea otters. The otters were very curious...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100153/2002/09/18.html#a10 Hike 7: Deep Lake- September 9, 2002 Distance: 15 Miles (Round trip) Elevation: 5,500 Feet Elevation Gain: 3350 Feet (Round trip) The hikes are getting easier by the week. This one was a piece of cake, partially because it is a stock trail and partially because we are getting stronger. Unfortunately, this hike was also a bummer in some ways. We passed by Squaw Lake on the way up and it is very pretty, but also was the scene of the worst camp fire desecration I've ever seen. I stopped doing Alpine Lakes hikes a long time ago...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100153/2002/09/09.html#a9 |