A local hike to Shaw Twin Lakes.
- October 2, 2016
- Team: Tom & Susan
- Hike: Shaw Twin Lakes
- Peak: Pt. 7161
- RT: 3.4 miles, 800' gain, 2:00 car-to-car
- Lists of John
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It was Sunday, and the morning had been down to 23°. We decided to leave at a leisurely 11:30. Even so, it was coats and gloves as we got under way. The trail had been cut out, and there is not a lot of gain to get to the first lake, so it was easy walking. |
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Part of the trail follows an old irrigation ditch. |
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Then you pass through some pretty meadows (soggy in the spring?), and walk a movable log to cross a shallow creek. |
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| And here's Lower Shaw Twin. For such a short hike and easy access, it has a very alpine feel. |  |
| Upper Shaw Twin has a dam on it, thus in October you get a bathtub ring. Still, very pretty. |  |
The map showed a smaller lake up above, so we bushwacked to it the hard way. On the way back, we followed a much better path, and that led us to a hilltop view of the upper lake, below. Again, very alpine. It looks like there might be some fun scrambling, plus a possible route to climb Boulder Mountain. All that is for another day, though. |
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| From the north side of the highpoint, you get great views of the Lake Fork Creek drainage, the valley that contains the McCall side of Lick Creek Road. |  |
| Then we cruised back to the car so that I could tag this highpoint. From where we parked it's about a 3 or 4 minute walk with about 50' of gain. |  |
| Lame, but also offering nice views. That's Boulder Mountain and the valley containing the Shaw Twin Lakes. |  |
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