Saturday, May 15, 2010

Barclay Lake

Today Jason, Coda and I took a shorter and less steep hike up to Barclay Lake.  We still consider this training for Half Dome in August, but this was much less of an intense hike and more just for the pure enjoyment of the sun today.

We lucked out and we had beautiful BLUE SKIES on our entire hike!!  The weatherman had predicted "mountain showers" and that was exactly what happened to us last week on our hike up that way, so we were preapred for whatever we were given today.  We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day of hiking though!

The trail was crowded with lots of people and lots of doggies, so that made it fun.  We usually don't run into too many people on our hikes.  But since today was a great day to be outdoors I guess everyone wanted to take advantage of that like us.

To get to Barclay Lake, we hiked about 2.25 miles there and 2.25 miles back, making it a grand total of only 4.5 miles today.  The hike was well worth it though!  The lake was beautiful and calm and made for the perfect place to have a picnic lunch and watch Coda dig in the water.  And not having to hike through the snow like we did last week was a very nice change!

On our way to Barclay Lake

Getting ready to cross the creek on the bridge

It's a MUST to stop at a rock and do my traditional muscle pose

Beautiful Barclay Lake surrounded by snowy mountains

Another view of the lake from our lunch spot

This time we actually remembered the tripod for our family photo!

My favorite (Coda even has the look of a model)!

Sunshine, hiking, and a great destination=
PURE PERFECTION!

 

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