“I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell; I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the light around the shore.” ~George Meredith

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After our Sunrise hike to McGee Lake we had breakfast then packed a lunch and grabbed water for the afternoon’s hike at Parker Lake off Hwy 395. It’s a strenuous 2.2 mile hike up to the Mountain Lake. The trail meanders through wooded, and high dessert open areas that are hot and dusty, rocky terrain, and here and there are lovely meadows.

Most of us brought our lunch and water on the hike, but some did not. They were told it was only a 1.2 mile hike and didn’t think it would take 2 hours to hike up to the lake. They were pretty thirsty when they got to the lake. There was enough water between us to get those without it enough to keep them going. We had an 88 year old woman in this workshop who made it all the to the Lake and back down on her own two feet. She is amazing, and an inspiration. Can I just say – ALWAYS TAKE WATER! Even on short hikes.

There was a dog chasing fish in the lake out of the frame on the right. He was our lunch entertainment. After he got tired of fishing he got hold of a huge branch and carried or tried to carry it everywhere. When we were hiking down he and his owners passed us and the dog still had that branch!

I plan on doing this hike again. There is a meadow with Aspens that were at their peak about a mile in. I’d like to shoot them in the morning light. We were there in the afternoon – sun was in the wrong direction.
My friend Dali and I did this hike. While my friend Theresa went with Bill Wight, and Win to find some beaver ponds.

The color had just started to turn here and what had turned was yellow, not oranges on the Lake.

PP- Vibrance, clarity, levels, tweaked the yellows and greens to get them to look the way I remembered them, resized, and cropped off a bit at the top.

Nikon D300s, Nikkor 17-35mm @ 17mm, f16, 1/20s, ISO 200, Manual Mode, On a Tripod

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