Lena Lake — Thursday, Apr. 28, 2005

Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal

Yesterday was my first trip into and overnighting at Lena Lake. My friend and I found the trail easy to navigate, the scenery beautiful, and all the people we ran into very friendly. One caution- with a lot of rain recently the trail was a bit wet, each of us slipped a couple times. Also, in The Brothers camping area on the north side of the lake, before the waterfall, past the second toilet, about 5 to 10 minutes up into the hill, we came across the most disgusting campsite ever. We suspect the group staying there extended their partying to brewing drugs. We cleaned it up a bit, but there is a lot more to be carried out. If you're going in for a day hike or have room to haul some trash, that area could use some help. Sorry I don't have an exact location, I didn't bring my Garmin along.