Marie is quite the hiker and we went all the way around the lake this time... unintentionally. We got a little lost, but eventually came out to the main road we had driven in on and followed that back to the parking lot. Curious to see where we went wrong, we took a trip up to the ranger station to look at a map. We found there are actually two lakes instead of one. What we intended to do was hike half way around the one lake, then turn around and walk back on the same side. However, we got turned around when we lost sight of the water and ended up hiking in between the two lakes. That put us out at the road, which we then had to take the rest of the way around the first lake. The moral of this story: Maps are a good thing to have when you're hiking!

I didn't take my camera with me that day because I didn't anticipate finding many different things to take pictures of than what Aimee and I saw, but boy was I wrong. Nature is beautiful and ever-changing no matter what day you look at it. Marie and I found a small waterfall worth going back to photograph, so I did that a few days later by myself. The pictures below are from that trip.