Beaver Lake — Sunday, Jul. 1, 2012

North Cascades > Mountain Loop Highway

It has been twenty years since I have hiked Beaver Lake, memories of trees larger than anything I had ever seen were locked in my mind... This is an easy hike for all ages. It rambles a fairly flat bed beauty through green, moss, more green, plants of all kinds and finally a small grove of old growth trees though not the ones I remember. The trail was wet but it had been raining for days, there were a few sections of blow-downs but everything was managable. The mosquitos were on the wild side as they never left our side even wearing 100% pure Deet. The trail hits the Saulk river and a path has been re-worked past the slide area. We walked ahile further until we hit the river again and this time the trail ended. We could go no further and headed back. Its sad to see the river damage and not to find my old ginormous old growth trees, but we had a graet time and got some nice photographs...I will be back.