After breakfast we drove east on highway 20 to very near Emigrant Gap and took Bowman Lake north to the Carr Lake trailhead. Only the last bit of the road was dirt, so a passenger car could make it.
Island Lake
We hiked just a short ways in to Island Lake, where we found a couple of caches. The trail was still snow bound in a lot of places, so our going was slow, although pretty.
After returning to the car, we drove on to Bowman Lake. This was a much rougher road—high clearance required I think. It’s an interesting shelf road in a beautiful, deep canyon. At one spot I think had a cache been at the bottom of the canyon the GPSr would have said it was only 300 ft away, but the straight-line distance would have been at least 2,000 feet. It sure seemed like a cliff to me (’course, I don’t like heights).
Links:
—Island Lake photo gallery
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