East Fork Foss - Necklace Valley — Friday, Aug. 7, 2020

Started out on Friday morning about 11am, took the last spot in the very small lot. We made it to the river crossing no problem, then the fun began. We had intentions of making it to Emerald lake for the night but it took us 7 hours to get to Jade lake so we found a spot on the north end and camped.
The bugs were horrendous. 3/5 in our group had mosquito nets that seemed to work, they were everywhere!
Woke up to soggy and misty conditions and decided to hike up to emerald, opal, Lockett and Al lakes. We took a little scramble up the ridges in hopes of seeing Tank lake and the other mountains but it was too foggy. The trail isn’t well marked and there are lots of side trails leading to the different lakes but we found our way back easily. It was crowded on Saturday too wjth lots of people looking for sites.
We heard rumors of bears at Jade lake, but luckily hung our food bags before we left and nothing was disturbed.

Sunday was beautiful for the hike out, bugs were much better after the major descent to the river crossing. Made it out in about 5hours.