Thanks. I never actually got to the testing stage. I just read and asked and thought, then got a Canon PowerShot G12. I'm digging it.Crusak wrote:Great report, and you have some great pics too. That new camera - I remember that you were testing out a new one, something in between an SLR and a pocket camera, right?
Sky Lakes Wilderness 8/15-17/2011
Re: Sky Lakes Wilderness 8/15-17/2011
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Re: Sky Lakes Wilderness 8/15-17/2011
Nice Report, thanks!
I'm thinking of going down there this weekend. Any tips on which lake is best for fishing?
I'm thinking of going down there this weekend. Any tips on which lake is best for fishing?
Re: Sky Lakes Wilderness 8/15-17/2011
Don't you just love those short cuts between the PCT and Lake Maragarette. You walk a hundred yards off the PCT, view the lovely lake just a couple hundred feet below, and envision a campsite in 20 minutes...
...only to find that trail designer was paid by the mile. It's four long, horrid miles to that campsite a bird could have flown to in 15 seconds.
Sadly, the Snow Lakes trail also takes a 4-mile milk run by some un named ponds before eventually making it to a lake large enough to filter water.
Beautiful lake basin, bizzare trail design.
Also, is the Waldo Tree at Island lake still standing? or did you go that far south (and west)?
...only to find that trail designer was paid by the mile. It's four long, horrid miles to that campsite a bird could have flown to in 15 seconds.
Sadly, the Snow Lakes trail also takes a 4-mile milk run by some un named ponds before eventually making it to a lake large enough to filter water.
Beautiful lake basin, bizzare trail design.
Also, is the Waldo Tree at Island lake still standing? or did you go that far south (and west)?
Re: Sky Lakes Wilderness 8/15-17/2011
I don't fish, really, but I'd think the biggest ones, Margurette and Trapper, would be best. Just wander around and give 'em all a try!The Forager wrote:Any tips on which lake is best for fishing?
Re: Sky Lakes Wilderness 8/15-17/2011
The trails there really are weird. Just coming in on the Sky Lakes Trail and wanting to get from Trapper Lake up to the PCT somehow involves about three miles of walking. We went around it and kept saying to ourselves, why are we here? On the way down we took a shortcut from No See Um Lake to the SLT and knocked two miles off in like 10 minutes.BigBear wrote:Don't you just love those short cuts between the PCT and Lake Maragarette. You walk a hundred yards off the PCT, view the lovely lake just a couple hundred feet below, and envision a campsite in 20 minutes...
...only to find that trail designer was paid by the mile. It's four long, horrid miles to that campsite a bird could have flown to in 15 seconds.
Sadly, the Snow Lakes trail also takes a 4-mile milk run by some un named ponds before eventually making it to a lake large enough to filter water.
Beautiful lake basin, bizzare trail design.
Also, is the Waldo Tree at Island lake still standing? or did you go that far south (and west)?
And I've never heard of the Waldo Tree. What is it?