Catching up after a busy couple of weeks. The fall colors kicked in for the high country as the summer heat faded. We took a couple of fantastic hikes to check them out and enjoy some quality time in the mountains.
First Mary, Reed, Bristle and I journey up to Green Lake and Brown Lake in the South Fork Bishop Creek drainage. We started near Parchers Resort where the colors were especially vivid.
Higher up the colors disappeared but the mountain scenery was grand.
Bristle cruises the shoreline at Brown Lake.
Inlet and meadows at Green Lake.
Reed soaks it in on the way back down to Brown Lake
and paused for a cameo above South Lake.
Once we had a taste we needed more! This time we scooped up our friend Jim and headed up to another Green Lake - the one south of Bridgeport.
The trail soon provided more great fall scenery.
We took a pleasant break at Green Lake.
Continued up to East Lake
Smoke from the Sequoia fires had plagued us much of late summer and this day it chased us out.
We managed to stay just ahead of it as we hiked out so we still enjoyed the latter part of our day.
Big daddy Juniper captured my attention.
Beavers!
Super nice outings!
2 comments:
I guess I only have one color on my mind . . . :)
Oh yeah. I know where you're coming from. I'm hoping the stars align for storms next week although it's starting to look like more of a northern event. Fingers crossed!
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