Windy Lake - Wind Rivers

[Nico]

Here's a video from the trip:

I went out to Windy Lake over 4th of July weekend and the trip had left a bittersweet taste in my mouth...mostly bitter though...and stinging with mosquito bites. We drove up Christina Lake Road, which turns out to be quite a rough one - glad we had the Jeep. We fished Atlantic Lake, and caught as many fish as we could make casts, and schwacked it on up to Windy Lake. When the wind did stop, the mosquitos came in droves. More than any I've ever seen - I had hundreds on me at a time, and that is WITH some fierce repellent. Hiking out in the Uintas and Boulder Mountains I am used to mosquitoes...but not like these ones!

We spent the night, and then deemed the location inhospitable to humans and hastily retreated to the confines of our vehicle and subsequently our cozy home. That's just how it goes sometimes...

Here are some pics from the trip:

Departing the trusty vehicle:

Nice views at Atlantic Lake:

Fast fishing at Atlantic Lake:

Arriving at Windy Lake:

Windy Lake at the end of the day:

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[isleroyaleguy]

Wow!
Incredibly rugged road in. Jeep handled it well. Too bad about the bugs. Hope they disappear before our trip. Fishing can be off the hook at times in the Winds.
Great video.
Thanks for sharing
Cheers
IRG

 

[Nick]

I'm way impressed your jeep got all the way through that. Did you actually make it all the way to the end at Christina Lake? I backpacked up to Windy a couple years ago from Fiddlers Lake. We looped down past Christina on the way back. I remember thinking it would take a damn tank to get through some of that stuff, especially down near the outlet of Gustave Lake.

 

[Nico]

We stopped just short of Christina Lake because we were getting really concerned about running out of gas. Having the Rubicon edition of the Jeep helped a lot as I used lockers for several sections of the trail. I think we would've been fine making it all the way to Christina Lake. The trail was definitely more rough than I had anticipated.

 

[Nick]

So did you go through the Gustave outlet and up the other side or did you stop before that?

 

[Nico]

We stopped just uphill before the Gustave Lake outlet, about half a mile back up the road - the high point on the contours right above the 10228 peak.

 

[Deadeye008]

I went up that road a few years back on ATVs. I'm impressed your Jeep made it that far. It gets really nasty after the Gustave outlet. Get into any Gold while you were up there? The creek between Christina and Windy was full of them when we were there. Some decent fish in Windy too.

 

[Nico]

I went up that road a few years back on ATVs. I'm impressed your Jeep made it that far. It gets really nasty after the Gustave outlet. Get into any Gold while you were up there? The creek between Christina and Windy was full of them when we were there. Some decent fish in Windy too.

Yeah we stopped the jeep before the Gustave outlet, but I saw those rocks and I think I could've handled it if I chose my line carefully. The issue was that we were running out of gas.

I fished the creek out of Windy just long enough to catch a couple goldens, and then packed up and headed out because the mosquitos were so bad. Fishing at Windy was pretty dismal (and pretty windy).