Tank Lakes, East Fork Foss - Necklace Valley & Williams Lake — Saturday, Jul. 26, 2025

This is not a trip about the Alpine Lakes High Route. If you go to my website slowesthiker.com or follow the link, I tell the story of why we didn't do it. Though we did do a little adding on. Things to note here: the camps along the river on the way in are lovely, but you can probably expect competition on weekends. I had NO bugs there, which was shocking. The "stay right" advice on the rock scramble to Tanks is really hard to see on the way up, but you will almost instinctively end up doing it on the way down. We thought the site up on the hill at the end of the lake was the best, and the breeze keeps the bugs tamed. Though I do think bringing wag bags for this area is a necessity, and I was thankful I remembered to bring mine. Also we had fun finding the second Tank Lake, which you just need to keep going up once you make the right turn instead of heading down to the main Tank Lake. The bugs up there were next level though.  

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