Lake Ingalls

Beautiful day hike. Very crowded parking lot (shares with Esmeralda Basin), but once we got up over the ridge it was not as mobbed. Nice and cool - perfect hiking weather. Many wildflowers are still blooming. The drive through the Teanaway is reason enough to go: beautiful farms and forests, coyotes and other wildlife (including cows wandering on the road).

There are tons of bugs around the lake, but the approach is relatively bug free.

As a note: if you are trying to circumnavigate the lake the only good way to go is counter clockwise, but there is a fairly difficult rocky ledge area (stay low).

It is definitely worth going, but if you want solitude this is not the hike for you.