Fishtrap Lake - North and South Loop — Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017

A friend & I returned to Fishtrap for a trailrun this morning, connecting all of the outer trails in the system for one long 7.5 mile route.  (It would be easy to connect over the Hog Canyon Trails for close to another 6 miles, too!)  It was a gorgeous fall day.  Most of the aspen have now lost their leaves, but there's still a bit of fall color.  No wind, and the lake was like glass.  It is stinky right now, as WDFW recently treated the lake with retenone to kill off illegally introduced fish.  This makes it a good time for bird watching for anyone who doesn't mind the stench; we saw several bald eagles feeding on the dead fish.  Closer to the parking lots, we saw several people who were out for the upland bird hunting season, so wearing orange is recommended.

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