Desertrat
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After loading up, we were off to Thousand Lake Mountain for an overnight trip.
The first stop was Round Lake to do some fishing. We didn't catch anything out of there. I tried everything; worms, powerbait, lures, and flies.
We left without catching anything and stopped to find a geocache. We started looking for a camp spot, the Elkhorn campground had a bunch of people already there so we kept on looking. Finally found a spot hidden in the trees and set up camp. After camp was set we headed to Deep Creek Lake. Along the way, we spotted a rainbow and I tried to take a picture of it.
We pulled up to the trailhead and headed out on what we thought was the trail but ended up being a bushwack to the lake. The fishing was slow at the start but finally heated up. We caught several brook trout but the weather was starting to rain so we high tailed it back to the truck on the trail.
It rained the rest of the night and there were some good lightning strikes in the sky. In the morning, I hiked over to a nearby hill and took a few pictures of valley below before the sun went behind the clouds.
After some eggs and bacon it was off to hike to the highest peak, Flat Top. There are two trailheads, we chose to hike up from Snow Lake. The trail climbs up the mountain side at a rather steep incline. If that wasn't hard enough the ground was still wet and slippery. We finally made it to where the trail levels off and had a nice view into Cathedral Valley.
The rest of the hike was easy with a gradual incline. The peak is just a rock outcropping with a mailbox on top in a large meadow.
This isn't the highest peak in the county, it falls short by 11 feet. On the hike out, we ran into a strange deer skull. It had two points on one side and a short antler that curled down on the other.
Soon we was back at the trail heading down the mountain. It was still just as steep and slippery.
Luckily we got down unscathed. It was a relatively short hike, about 3 miles with 800 feet gained in the first mile. After the hike we drove down the road a little further to an overlook and had some lunch.
With lunch gone, we headed off the mountain and took the Gooseberry road home and followed the old highway along I-70 all the way to the Emery turnoff. This is cool road, it is mostly gravel with a few old pavement spots and two tunnels to drive through.
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The first stop was Round Lake to do some fishing. We didn't catch anything out of there. I tried everything; worms, powerbait, lures, and flies.
We left without catching anything and stopped to find a geocache. We started looking for a camp spot, the Elkhorn campground had a bunch of people already there so we kept on looking. Finally found a spot hidden in the trees and set up camp. After camp was set we headed to Deep Creek Lake. Along the way, we spotted a rainbow and I tried to take a picture of it.
We pulled up to the trailhead and headed out on what we thought was the trail but ended up being a bushwack to the lake. The fishing was slow at the start but finally heated up. We caught several brook trout but the weather was starting to rain so we high tailed it back to the truck on the trail.
It rained the rest of the night and there were some good lightning strikes in the sky. In the morning, I hiked over to a nearby hill and took a few pictures of valley below before the sun went behind the clouds.
After some eggs and bacon it was off to hike to the highest peak, Flat Top. There are two trailheads, we chose to hike up from Snow Lake. The trail climbs up the mountain side at a rather steep incline. If that wasn't hard enough the ground was still wet and slippery. We finally made it to where the trail levels off and had a nice view into Cathedral Valley.
The rest of the hike was easy with a gradual incline. The peak is just a rock outcropping with a mailbox on top in a large meadow.
This isn't the highest peak in the county, it falls short by 11 feet. On the hike out, we ran into a strange deer skull. It had two points on one side and a short antler that curled down on the other.
Soon we was back at the trail heading down the mountain. It was still just as steep and slippery.
Luckily we got down unscathed. It was a relatively short hike, about 3 miles with 800 feet gained in the first mile. After the hike we drove down the road a little further to an overlook and had some lunch.
With lunch gone, we headed off the mountain and took the Gooseberry road home and followed the old highway along I-70 all the way to the Emery turnoff. This is cool road, it is mostly gravel with a few old pavement spots and two tunnels to drive through.
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