I backpacked up from Crest Camp Sunday for an overnighter at this lake, which is immediately north of Blue Lake. It is part of the designated camping area that surrounds Blue Lake and there is only one designated site here, so I was lucky to get it, especially since most backpackers come in from Thomas Lake, which is about half the hike I did. Weather was sunny and cool on Sunday, trails very dusty, and weather moved in overnight, as forecast. But at least Sahallee Tyee is not the wind tunnel that Blue Lake can be (and was on Monday morning), and the trails were damp for the hike out on Monday.
Seen during trip:
Mosquitoes: 0
Berries: uncountable (I thought I had a siting of the rare wild cascadia black plums, but they were just f'ing humungous berries).
- Panorama of Lake Sahallee Tyee
- my designated campsite (#8) is at left
- hiked up to Rock Lake that afternoon
- Blue Lake
- afforementioned plums
- What I awoke to on Monday
