Heather Lake
05 19 2010About 50 or 60 miles northeast of Seattle is a trail that leads a couple of miles up a mountain. It’s not too tough a hike. We did it in regular sneakers and used no special gear. There are a couple of streams to cross, but they’re not tricky.
At the top of the trail is Heather Lake, faced on a couple of sides by steep granite slopes. Snow run-off creates dozens and dozens of waterfalls shooting off the mountains to feed the lake.
There are roughly a zillion boulders piled up around the lake, probably left there when the glaciers receded as the Ice Age waned. Thanks, glaciers, those were fun to climb on!
In retrospect, I wish we’d started earlier so we could have spent more time further off-trail. In some more retrospect, I also wish I’d taken a lot more pictures.
