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Originally Posted by Lee
Awesome! Is that Big Sandy Lake? Did you make it to the Cirque of Towers? One of my favorite places in the world.
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Lee - That's lower Cook Lake. We went in at the Elkhart trailhead out of Pinedale and did a big loop. We went past Island Lake and Titcomb basin then headed South cross-country from there but we ended up getting chased out two days early by snowy weather. Just narrowly avoided getting trapped up near the crest by the snow.
I like to avoid crowds and Cirque of the Towers is one of the most crowded places in the whole area. Thing is, with all the bad smoke covering everything in the West last year, the Winds were one of the places where the smoke wasn't too bad and everyone was heading there. There were people everywhere and we ran into two different parties from the Seattle area, so the word was out.
Hikin Mike - nice work on that Barn Owl! I now have pics of Snowy Owls, Short Eared Owls, and Great Horned Owls. Would sure like to get a Barn Owl, they are really cool looking birds.