Gates are open, back to Fir Lake

Fir Lake is quite small.  Where are all the new campers pooping?

Back to Fir lake to hopefully find my camera strap. The wild life gate is open now, but it’s not a very well known lake so I thought I had a good chance of finding it. Nope, no luck. I guess someone picked it up.

Fir Lake was my backpacking destination two weeks ago when I had to turn around due to snow and fatigue.  I wore boots for this hike expecting snow.  I did not need to wear boots, all of the snow is gone.  All of it!

 Sadly I had to share the lake with other hikers too! LOL The lake is now in a hiking guide and there are campfire rings everywhere. I won’t try going there again in the summer. The trail is so very ugly that most people would not bother with this hike. I hate how they destroyed the road by converting it to trail.

 They did such an ugly job on this road to trail conversion. The hike was much nicer before. The road was filling in with blueberries and it was a nice shady hike. Now the road is just horrible dry root ball lined artificial trail. So very ugly. Why did they do such an ugly job here?

Snake let me get really close.. rocks confused the HDR
setting on my camera but the snake came out just right.