Attempted hike to Susie Lake

July 13, 2011, 10:12 pm

Upper Glen Alpine Falls

The trailhead for Susie Lake is the Glen Alpine Springs trail, at the bottom end of Fallen Leaf Lake. Glen Alpine Springs is an interesting historical resort that is being preserved. The soda springs were especially interesting because with all the extra snow melt water around, we could see gas escaping (bubbling) many feet away from the spring.

After Glen Alpine Spring, the trail turns north and begins to climb along a creek coming from Gilmore Lake. It was roaring with snow melt. Reaching the crest of the climb, we had less than a mile of fairly level hiking to get to Susie Lake. Unfortunately, it meant crossing that roaring creek. There was a skinny log, but we chose not to find out how good our balance is, and so returned back down the trail.

Links
—Susie Lake 2011 photo gallery

July 13th, 2011 | Category: Outdoors

2 comments to Attempted hike to Susie Lake

• Tahoe, 2011 – Leakage from a Cluttered Mind

  August 2, 2011 at 5:17 pm

  […] did one nice day-hike (subject of another post), and two bike rides. Even though it was a bit breezy, the rides were very enjoyable. We started […]

• DavidC

  August 3, 2011 at 10:27 am

  Better safe than sorry, especially with so many other bad stories out there recently… Looks nice though, I could imagine the fresh crisp air…