Day 3 was a slow day on the trail. We decided to take it easy, pack up and head to a new camp site. Our plan was to travel slowly and explore. We explored Upper and Lower Snow Lakes, a Coleman Crapper and Nada Lake. After all the miles from the previous days, this slow approach left us lots of time for silliness - including prom pics, yoga, selfies, gummy bear taste tests and self frisbee.
A group shot before leaving our camping spot at Upper Snow. We headed down to the creek to pump water and then got started hiking at 11:10.
This is above Nada Lake looking down on it. We had to hike thru a bunch of landslide granite boulders - sometimes on the edge of the world. In fact, in some areas, the only thing making you stay on the trail was plants that formed a type of wall.
Grace and I got trail bracelets for all the ladies.
Crossing the creek where we pumped our water.
The forest along Upper Snow was quite dense.
Shannon brought a Frisbee with her and was always disappointed when no one wanted to play with her (we had just hiked for miles and miles and were tired). So on the third nite she suddenly starts throwing her Frisbee and catching it herself! We were all cracking up!
After we got to Nada Lake and had lunch in the sunshine, Grace held a gummy bear blind taste test. We compared the gummies that Susan brought against the gummies we brought. Susan was the taste tester and Grace administered the test. Shannon and I stood by commented on how we would have barfed after the 4th gummy! The results were that Susan liked our gummies 4 out of the 5 times! Later, the bag of gummies melted into one giant gummy while sitting in the sun!
Lower Snow had these beautiful horsetail plants which looked lovely but are apparently indicative of an unhealthy lake.
This was where we had lunch. It was such a warm day in the sun that Shannon went skinny dipping! She is brave!
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| Susan and her highly coveted People Magazine |
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| Prom pics! |
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| It got cold FAST when the sun went behind the mountain |
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| Silly selfies! |
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| At nite we would sit around and read conversation starters out of a book and each respond |
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| More silly selfies |
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| Upper Snow |
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| Susan in a downward dog at Upper Snow |
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| Me and Shannon in tree poses at Upper Snow |
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| This shows the huge boulders we had to hike thru to get from Lower Snow back down to Nada |
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| Nada Lake from above |
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| Butt crack rock - distant cousin of butt crack rock near Cherry Lake! |
