Our very first backpacking and camping trip with Logan! The lake is just to the north (on the other side of Highway 2) of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, underneath Bearing Mountain. We hiked two relatively flat miles on a lovely and well maintained trail to the lake. The trail winds through old growth forest, past many enormous moss covered boulders and over a medium sized stream. The campsites were pretty crowded - there was a group at nearly every one.
The lake is fairly small, but picturesque. Bearing Mountain towers 4000 feet above the lake with twin peaks and shear granite cliffs.
Logan loved the hike, and once we got there Logan had a lot of fun. He waded in the lake and walked around the campsite. He was fascinated with the fitful and smokey campfire Heidi coaxed out of the damp wood. He thought the tent was really fun - he crawled in and out of it, and shook the tent poles.
After dinner Heidi put Logan to bed. Logan cried for half an hour, but then went to sleep. I stayed out of the tent, put out the fire, and sat around with Chazz. Once it got dark I shoved Chazz into the tent and went to sleep. Logan slept better than I did - I woke up and checked on him repeatedly. In my half awake state I was really afraid something bad would happen. The only bad thing that actually happened was that Chazz got up at 4:30 and woke up Logan.
When we got back to the parking lot the next morning Logan shouted "car!"
While Heidi was washing our pans I saw a hiker coming down the trail with his son. He had been up the trail from Barclay lake to Eagle Lake. He said the trail after Barclay lake was rarely traveled and hard to follow. It went up steeply, then through "paradise meadow" before reaching Eagle Lake. There's a fisherman's cabin up there. Could be an interesting Hike for the future.
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