Hoffer Lakes
From Oregon Hikers Field Guide
- Hikes to this destination:
- Hoffer Lakes Hike (TH | <— —> | LOG)
- Weather forecast: NWS/NOAA
- Maps: Oregon Hikers Maps Google Maps
- Latitude, Longitude: 44.9494, -118.2361
- Elevation: 7472 feet
Description
The two Hoffer Lakes, nestled below the granite summits of Gunsight Mountain and Angell and Lees Peaks in the Elkhorn Range, used to be a single body of water, but silting over the millennia has produced a swampy meadow between them. Take the trail to the second Hoffer Lake, which with its abrupt granite boundary, is a more scenic spot than the first, smaller, lake. Like Anthony Lake, the shallow lakes were formed by a moraine dam at the lip of a glacial cirque.
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