East Crater / Jcn and Bear Lakes

[drm]

I have wanted to see the East Crater trail and Junction Lake to see what damage there was from the fire last year. Sunday was the day and I decided not to spend the night given the reputation for mosquitoes, but there were very few. I had lunch next to Jcn Lake with no DEET and got maybe two bites. And no fire damage there either, or going south a ways on the PCT. All of the burn appears to be on the east side of East Crater.

first sign of burn, about 1 mile in

pond, burn, east side of East Crater

trail and meadow, no damage

Junction Lake

Bear Lake

[justpeachy]

Thanks for the report. I've been wondering about the damage since we were in Indian Heaven at the time the fire broke out.

[Thuja]

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