Wet Walk - Beaver Lake Trail

ML and I are 'training' for our impending (read 2 months to go) Peru trip.  Despite a typical Southeast Alaska rainforest day, we decided we better truck up the Beaver Lake Trail - a 4 mile sojourn that takes us up the mountain a ways too.  What a fun time!

You walk up along a stream.  Today it was full of water from the rain.  At this time of year, the periphery of the woods are VERY green.  After all, there's still a good 15 hours of light and lots of moisture.

At the top of the stream is a big falls.  Today there was a section of it, that you can just barely see in the middle, that went straight out.  Nice.  

A little further you get up to Beaver Lake.  I love the mist and clouds in hanging out, drifting through.  Sometimes the lake was calm enough to have a reflection of the surrounding mountains, and sometimes there was just enough breeze to erase the mirror.

You can see there's still some snow hanging out in the crevasses of the mountains.  

Yeah, you're right.  This is staged!

After you walk up to the lake, there's a trail around it.  You walk through a "mass wasting event" - a multiple tree blowdown that friends of ours barely survived.  Then it opens to an alpine meadow that has some real nice flowers at this time of year. 

The bridge is made of yellow cedar.  ML is laughing because I ran across the bridge thinking I was going to get a picture.  She ran right behind me to foil my attempt. 

But look at who won!

Great trail, great fun.