Clara and Marion Lakes — Monday, May. 24, 2021

Hiked today with 2 kids (almost 4 y/o and 1.5 y/o) and my husband. I mostly carried my 1.5 y/o (it was her nap time), but my 3 y/o did great. She could’ve hiked the whole thing (although slowly), but we didn’t know if it would rain so we carried her about 60% of the way up to move things along. She hiked the full way down. I’m also just about 9 months pregnant - noting that with respect to difficulty and how doable this hike is, even though I felt VERY out of shape with uphill portion haha. We saw no one. Very little snow to Clara Lake. A little more snow to Marion, but not bad at all. We all wore hiking shoes (no microspikes or anything needed). A tree that fell down hides part of the Marion Lake trail so we got off track, but we had the map downloaded on AllTrails and were easily able to bushwhack a portion to the lake. Both lakes are stunning. Not including pics because WTA doesn’t post any of my trip reports with pictures (I think it would work if I posted from my computer versus phone... IT issue... will always indicate “pending”).