Sheep Lake and Sourdough Gap

Wow are the flowers out! But somehow the bugs are not, and neither were the people (surprisingly--maybe the cloudy weather on the Puget Sound side of the Mountain kept everyone home?). No guarantees for next weekend of course.

We arrived at 10 am and set off, only seeing one couple on the way to Sheep Lake. While guidebooks generally say the lake is at 2.5 miles, the trailhead sign says 1.5, and I think that's right--there's no way it's 2.5. And it's definitely more than .5 mile from Sheep Lake to the Gap--I think the 3 mile total is accurate, but the fractions aren't. The flowers were gorgeous the whole way (starting alongside the highway). About 10 minutes past Sheep Lake--WOW!! Some of the best flowers I've seen, and so many blooming right now--lupine, paintbrush, aster, some beargrass still, columbine, and many more I didn't recognize. Sheep Lake made for a lovely wade on the way back. The photos are from my phone so sorry for the quality!