I spent the weekend here with some friends. We drove to the trailhead Friday evening, spent the night there and hiked the following morning on Saturday. WTA says it's 20 miles roundtrip, the trailhead info said 7.6 miles one-way and my phone tracked it as a 8 mile hike.
It was a cold hike! Felt like 40 degrees. The trail was a bit overgrown with brush and there were a couple of downed trees we had to climb over. It is dusty at times and there are a lot of rocks poking out so I had to be careful about where I stepped. I found this to be a challenging hike with my backpack.
Once we got to the lake around noon, we set up camp and then went fishing at Oval Lake! My friend taught me how to fly fish which was really fun. It gets really cold up there once the sun disappears --- I wish I brought more layers!
It got really smoky overnight from the nearby fires and we all woke up with scratchy throats and stuffed noses and left promptly in the morning. Somehow my friends managed to hike down in two hours and it took me three+ :) . They literally left me in the dust to hike down alone. Whatever. And then we said goodbye and headed out!
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