We went exploring. It was wonderful. I hadn't ventured much out of my district and decided it was high time to explore other areas outside of my boundaries. We decided on hiking to Twin Lakes in Desolation Wilderness for Independence Day.
Here is our path. Our day was a smidge less than 9 miles. Nine beautiful miles.
Gil was very patriotic. I'm surprised he still has these socks.
We started at Wright's Lake. The mosquitoes were thick and aggressive and we didn't stick around long.
The wildflowers were going crazy! So much color everywhere. Where we live in the foothills has been brown for about two months now so the green and the color were wonderful to look at.
Columbines, my favorite!
Entering Desolation Wilderness! (we did have a permit)
Granite, water, conifers. I love, love, love, the high Sierra!!
(I love Gil, too!)
(I love Gil, too!)
One of the twins of Twin Lakes.
The other twin.
One of my coworkers gave us a "super secret pirate map" to a place off the trail and locally known as the Enchanted Pools. We were able to find it and spent a good hour here. Only one other hiker the whole time we were there.
I had visions the night before of diving in and swimming around and cooling off. This is about as far as I got as the water was freezing! Well, snow melt, so not still frozen, but recently so.
It was a wonderful day and we arrived home a good kind of tired. Gil had put a brisket in the crock pot and it was some of the best brisket I have ever tasted. We had our traditional root beer floats and didn't make it to fireworks. Thankfully, our community shot them off on Saturday. Second favorite holiday and first favorite way to observe it!
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